visible light vs gegenschein

gegenschein vs visible light

visible light and gegenschein both are nouns.

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

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

visible light: (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
gegenschein: 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, counterglow, 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)	gegenschein (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 gegenschein

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