visible light vs meteor

meteor vs visible light

visible light and meteor both are nouns.

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

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

visible light: (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
meteor: a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode

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, half-light, glow, incandescence, lamplight, luminescence, shooting star, Moon, moonlight, moonshine, starlight, sun, sunlight, sunshine, scintillation, streamer, torchlight, twilight.

visible light (noun)	meteor (noun)
(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation	(astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
	a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode

Difference between visible light and meteor

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