visible radiation vs twilight

twilight vs visible radiation

visible radiation and twilight both are nouns.

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

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

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

visible radiation: (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 radiation 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 radiation (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 radiation (adjective)	twilight (adjective)
	lighted by or as if by twilight

Difference between visible radiation and twilight

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