emit light

Example Sentences

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Wide pixels, which emit light to the sides, are separated from narrow, front-pointing pixels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Direct detection has not been possible because dark matter particles do not interact with electromagnetic force -- meaning they do not absorb, reflect or emit light.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025

A key example is superradiance, a quantum effect in which atoms emit light in perfect synchronization, creating a brightness far greater than the sum of their individual emissions.

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025

Those headlights, on the ends of two of its arms, are more properly called photophores - organs that react a mix of substances with oxygen to emit light.

From BBC • May 16, 2024

Take a pretty strong current, and interpose a wire still more resistant, or a very thin carbon rod, and the carbon will emit light.

From Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers by Atkinson, William Walker