Transilluminate
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To pass light easily through an object, body part, or liquid.
"Kirchoff and others went on to identify a score of other terrestrial elements in the sun, and now the Fraunhofer mystery — the hundreds of black lines in the solar spectrum — could be understood as the absorption spectra of these elements to the outermost layers of the sun, as they were transilluminated from within."
Example
More examples"Kirchoff and others went on to identify a score of other terrestrial elements in the sun, and now the Fraunhofer mystery — the hundreds of black lines in the solar spectrum — could be understood as the absorption spectra of these elements to the outermost layers of the sun, as they were transilluminated from within."
Etymology
From trans- + illuminate.
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