light source

Questions about light source

What does light source mean?

light source means "any device serving as a source of illumination".

What is another word for light source?

Close synonyms include light. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is light source a common word?

light source 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.