visible light vs twilight

twilight vs visible light

visible light and twilight both are nouns.

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

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

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

visible light: (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
twilight: the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth

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, meteor, shooting star, Moon, moonlight, moonshine, starlight, sun, sunlight, sunshine, scintillation, streamer, torchlight.

visible light (noun)	twilight (noun)
(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation	the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
	a condition of decline following successes
	the time of day immediately following sunset

visible light (adjective)	twilight (adjective)
	lighted by or as if by twilight

Difference between visible light and twilight

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