illumination
i looh muh nay shuhn
- n a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination
- n the degree of visibility of your environment
- n an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding
- n the luminous flux incident on a unit area
- n painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)
- As early as 1820, inventors were honing in on the principles that would lead to the first electric illumination.
- The physicist Louis de Broglie called Einstein's contributions that year "blazing rockets which in the dark of the night suddenly cast a brief but powerful illumination over an .
- Thomas Edison exhibits a replica of his first successful incandescent lamp, which gave 16 candlepower of illumination.