visible light vs counterglow

counterglow vs visible light

visible light and counterglow both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
visible light	Yes	No	No	No
counterglow	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, counterglow is a hyponym of visible light; that is, counterglow is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than visible light:

visible light: (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
counterglow: a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space

Other hyponyms of visible light include beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, candle flame, candlelight, corona, gegenschein, daylight, firelight, fluorescence, friar's lantern, ignis fatuus, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp, gaslight, glow, glowing, radiance, glow, half-light, glow, incandescence, lamplight, luminescence, meteor, shooting star, Moon, moonlight, moonshine, starlight, sun, sunlight, sunshine, scintillation, streamer, torchlight, twilight.

visible light (noun)	counterglow (noun)
(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation	a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space

Difference between visible light and counterglow

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