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SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any device serving as a source of visible electromagnetic radiation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("source of illumination" is a kind of...):
device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "source of illumination"):
lamp (an artificial source of visible illumination)
light; light source (any device serving as a source of illumination)
ultraviolet lamp; ultraviolet source (any source of illumination that emits ultraviolet radiation)