illuminant
See also: il·luminant
English
editEtymology
editFrom French.
Noun
editilluminant (plural illuminants)
- Something that illuminates.
- 1946 July and August, “The Why and The Wherefore: Natural Gas at Heathfield”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
- For a good many years, beginning in London, Brighton & South Coast days, the station at Heathfield, between Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne, was lighted by natural gas. The use of this illuminant was discontinued about 1934.
Adjective
editilluminant (not comparable)
- That illuminates.
Translations
editReferences
editFrench
editParticiple
editilluminant
Further reading
edit- “illuminant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editVerb
editillūminant