Luminiferous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Generating, yielding, or transmitting light.
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  • adj. Producing, or transmitting light; luminous.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Producing light; yielding light; transmitting light.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In physics, producing or bearing light; yielding light: as, the luminiferous ether. See ether, 2.
  • Serving as a medium for conveying light.
    • Word Usage
    "I thought to myself how the present system of the universe depends upon what we term the luminiferous ether; of the perfect elasticity and inexpansibility of that ether; of what its nature must be."
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