visible radiation vs counterglow

counterglow vs visible radiation

visible radiation and counterglow both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
visible radiation	Yes	No	No	No
counterglow	Yes	No	No	No

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

visible radiation: (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
counterglow: 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 radiation include beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, candle flame, candlelight, corona, 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, twilight.

visible radiation (noun)	counterglow (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 radiation and counterglow

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