white light

noun

white light

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

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.
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.
See also color

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In London it is located in the Duveen Gallery where half the extant marbles sit under white light as if in a morgue.

It begins with me being nudged awake by a waxy moon spilling silver-white light through the window as I sucked my thumb.

The organ gallery gets a strong white light from a row of long windows in the clerestory, which have not even coloured glass.

A caller was frightened by a “round, bright, white light shining through the trees.”

A convex lens is fixated on a slanted ceiling emanating a faint amount of soft white light.

I am pleading for a clear white light of education that shall go like the sun round the whole world.

The white light of the moon had fallen upon the world like the mystery and the softness of sleep.

Beside autocratic kingship it shines with a white light; it is obviously the portal of the future.

When I looked up, I could see that there was a white light above, but the rain was still falling on me.

Chet touched a button, and a white light flashed to confirm his report that all was clear.

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