visible light vs glowing

glowing vs visible light

visible light and glowing both are nouns.

visible light is not an adjective while glowing is an adjective.

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

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

visible light: (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
glowing: the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface

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, gegenschein, daylight, firelight, fluorescence, friar's lantern, ignis fatuus, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp, gaslight, glow, 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)	glowing (noun)
(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation	the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface

visible light (adjective)	glowing (adjective)
	highly enthusiastic

Difference between visible light and glowing

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