white light

noun

1. light perceived by the eye as having the same color as sunlight at noon.

white light

noun

1. light that contains all the wavelengths of visible light at approximately equal intensities, as in sunlight or the light from white-hot solids

white light

1. Electromagnetic radiation composed of a fairly even distribution of all of the frequencies in the visible range of the spectrum, appearing white to the eye. Light from the Sun is nearly perfect white light, although the Sun does not itself appear white when viewed on Earth due to the scattering of light with frequencies in the blue range by the atmosphere, leaving the Sun with a yellow color.
2. Light that appears white to the eye, composed of some combination of light with frequencies in the red, blue, and green parts of the spectrum.
3. See also color

Example Sentences

When exposed to bright white light -- essentially the light of a sunny afternoon -- the cell's chloroplast shrunk to a ball, reducing its size by about 40% within five minutes.

From Science Daily

White light can be blinding, cold, unforgiving.

From Salon

But he says he “didn’t see the white light or anything.”

From Los Angeles Times

Like the warped fabric of Albert Einstein’s space-time continuum, the curvature also recalls the famous opening frames of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” where the blinding white light of the sun seems to rise from behind the black orb of an Earth buried — and maybe even lost — within the surrounding void of outer space.

From Los Angeles Times

In a marvelous 2018 installation at the Marciano Art Foundation near Hancock Park, the last substantive time his work was shown in Los Angeles, his projections of highly saturated color were produced by shining intense beams of pure white light through monochrome gels tucked up into the building’s rafters.

From Los Angeles Times