visible light

Questions about visible light

What does visible light mean?

visible light means "(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation".

What is another word for visible light?

Close synonyms include light, visible radiation. 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 visible light a common word?

visible light 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.