visible light vs half-light

half-light vs visible light

visible light and half-light both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
visible light	Yes	No	No	No
half-light	Yes	No	No	No

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

visible light: (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
half-light: a greyish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors)

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, glowing, radiance, glow, glow, incandescence, lamplight, luminescence, meteor, shooting star, Moon, moonlight, moonshine, starlight, sun, sunlight, sunshine, scintillation, streamer, torchlight, twilight.

visible light (noun)	half-light (noun)
(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation	a greyish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors)

Difference between visible light and half-light

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