light adaptation

1. 1.

   the process of adjusting the eyes to relatively high levels of illumination; the pupil constricts and the cones system is operative

   Broaderadaptation

Questions about light adaptation

What does light adaptation mean?

light adaptation means "the process of adjusting the eyes to relatively high levels of illumination; the pupil constricts and the cones system is operative".

Is light adaptation a common word?

light adaptation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.