luminous body
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Over the years she has created a luminous body of work, crafting art out of reflective materials such as cast resin, fiberglass, plastic and coated glass.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2022
An electric field is to an electrified body, what a thermal or heat field is to a heated body, or a luminous or lighted field is to a luminous body.
From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George
The familiar phenomena of light are no longer regarded as due to any actual matter that has been thrown from a luminous body.
From The Gospel Of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures by Aveling, Edward
A luminous body is supposed to have its atoms, or molecules, in a state of intense vibration.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John
By the motion of a luminous body I do not mean its sensible motion, such as the flicker of a candle, or the shooting out of red prominences from the limb of the sun.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
