Light
Light or visible light is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye. Visible light is usually defined as having wavelengths in the range of 400–700 nanometres (nm), corresponding to frequencies of 750–420 te ...
is an electromagnetic radiation, part of which stimulates the sense of vision.
Light or Lights may also refer to:
Illumination
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Light bulb
An electric light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical component that produces light. It is the most common form of artificial lighting. Lamps usually have a base made of ceramic, metal, glass, or plastic, which secures the lamp in the so ...
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Traffic light
Traffic lights, traffic signals, or stoplights – known also as robots in South Africa are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations in order to control flows of traffic.
Traffic light ...
Arts and entertainment
Music
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Lights (musician)
Lights Poxleitner-Bokan (born Valerie Anne Poxleitner; April 11, 1987), known mononymously as Lights (previously stylized as LIGHTS), is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter. She is known for singles "Drive My Soul", " February Air", "I ...
(born 1987), Canadian singer-songwriter
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Light Records
Light Records is a gospel record label founded in 1966 by Ralph Carmichael, as a joint venture with the Waco, Texas-based Word Records. It is a subsidiary of the MNRK Music Group.
History
Light Records' first roster included Ralph Carmichael ...
, a record label
Albums
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''Light'' (Matisyahu album), 2009
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''Light'' (Xu Weizhou album), 2016
* ''Light'', a 2004 album by Jeff Deyo
* ''Light'', a 2010 album by DakhaBrakha
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''Lights'' (EP), a 2008 EP by Lights
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''Lights'' (Archive album), 2006
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''Lights'' (Brigade album), 2006
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''Lights'' (Ellie Goulding album), 2010
* ''Lights'', a 2013 EP by
Kitchen Party
Songs
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"Spotlight" (Xiao Zhan song), also known as "Light" (2020)
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"Lights" (BTS song) (2019)
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"Lights" (Ellie Goulding song) (2010)
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"Lights" (Journey song), by Journey from album ''Infinity''
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"Light" (KMFDM song) (1993)
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"Light" (Music for Pleasure song) (1982)
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"Light" (San Holo song) (2016)
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"Lights" (Styx Song) (1980)
* "Light", a song by Big Sean, featuring Jeremih, from ''
I Decided''
* "Light", a song by Camouflage from ''
Relocated Relocated may refer to:
* ''Relocated'' (album), 2006 album by Camouflage
*'' Red vs. Blue: Relocated'', 2009 television miniseries
*"The Relocated", Inuit of the High Arctic relocation
The High Arctic relocation (french: La délocalisation du ...
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* "Light", a song by Depeche Mode from the deluxe box set edition of ''
Sounds of the Universe''
* "Lights", a song by Editors from ''
The Back Room''
* "Lights", a 2017 song by Inna from ''
Nirvana
( , , ; sa, निर्वाण} ''nirvāṇa'' ; Pali: ''nibbāna''; Prakrit: ''ṇivvāṇa''; literally, "blown out", as in an oil lamp Richard Gombrich, ''Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benāres to Modern Colombo. ...
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* "Lights", a song by Interpol from
their eponymous album
* "Light (Pop's Principle)", a song by Laura Nyro from''
Nested''
* "Light", a song by Odesza featuring Little Dragon from the deluxe edition of ''
In Return''
* "Lights", a song by Scissor Sisters from ''
Ta-Dah''
* "Light", a song from ''
Next to Normal
''Next to Normal'' (stylized in all lowercase) is a 2008 American rock musical with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt. The story centers on a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that managin ...
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Fictional characters
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Light (''Doctor Who''), a villain from ''Doctor Who''
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Doctor Light (disambiguation), several fictional characters
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Light Yagami
is the main protagonist of the manga series ''Death Note'', created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. He is portrayed as a brilliant but bored genius who finds the Death Note, an otherworldly supernatural notebook that allows the user to kill ...
, a character from the anime and manga series ''Death Note''
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Light (''Twinbee''), a character from the ''Twinbee'' franchise
Other arts and entertainment
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''Light'' (journal), a journal of light verse
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''Light'' (novel), a 2002 science fiction novel by M. John Harrison
* "Light", an
episode of ''Legend of the Seeker'', an American television series
* "Light", an episode of the Adult Swim television series
''Off the Air''
* ''Light'', a 2019 play based on the lives of
William Light
William Light (27 April 1786 – 6 October 1839), also known as Colonel Light, was a British- Malayan naval and army officer. He was the first Surveyor-General of the new British Province of South Australia, known for choosing the site o ...
and his father
Companies
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Light S.A., a Brazilian electricity distribution and retailing company
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Light (company), a digital photography peripheral company
Places
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County of Light, a cadastral county in South Australia
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Electoral district of Light
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office.
Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated ...
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Light Regional Council
Light Regional Council is a local government area north of Adelaide in South Australia. It is based in the town of Kapunda, and includes the towns of Freeling, Greenock, Hansborough, Hewett, Roseworthy and Wasleys.
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, a local government in South Australia
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Light River (South Australia)
The Light River ( Kaurna: ''Yarralinka''), commonly called the River Light, is a seasonal and significant river in the Mid North region of the Australian state of South Australia named for early surveyor William Light.
The River Light has gi ...
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Light River (New Zealand)
The Light River (also known as Te Houiti) is a river of Fiordland, New Zealand. It rises west of Lake Quill
Lake Quill is a tarn located in New Zealand's Fiordland National Park at 979 m above sea level. The cirque lake of approximately 1. ...
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Light, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in the United States
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Light, Missouri Light is an unincorporated community in Maries County, in the U.S. state of Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by ar ...
, an unincorporated community in the United States
Other uses
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Light (surname)
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Light (automobile), a car built in 1914 in Detroit
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Lights (offal) __NOTOC__
Lights are the lungs of game or livestock as used in cooking and butchery. Although technically offal, lights are rarely used in English-speaking culinary traditions, with the exception of the Scottish national dish haggis.
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, the lungs of an animal used in cooking
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Light (web browser), a lightweight web browser based on Firefox
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Light (window), the area between the outer parts of a window (head, sill and jambs), the mullions and transoms
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Skyway Light, a German paramotor design
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Ventilated cigarettes or lights, a cigarette type with a low level of nicotine
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World of Light
In Mandaeism, the World of Light or Lightworld ( myz, ࡀࡋࡌࡀ ࡖࡍࡄࡅࡓࡀ, translit=alma ḏ-nhūra) is the primeval, transcendental world from which Tibil and the World of Darkness emerged.
Description
*The Great Life ('' Hayyi Ra ...
, transcendental realm in Mandaeism
* LIGHT, the Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics at
Leeds School of Medicine
The School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Leeds, in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The School of Medicine was founded in 1831.
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See also
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Atmospheric ghost lights Atmospheric ghost lights are lights (or fires) that appear in the atmosphere without an obvious cause. Examples include the onibi, hitodama and will-o'-wisp. They are often seen in humid climates. Tsunoda 1979, pages 11-53
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The Light (disambiguation)
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Light Square
Light Square, also known as Wauwi (formerly Wauwe), is one of five public squares in the Adelaide city centre. Located in the centre of the north-western quarter of the Adelaide city centre, its southern boundary is Waymouth Street, while Curri ...
, in Adelaide
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Licht (disambiguation)
''Licht'' is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1977 and 2003.
Licht may also refer to:
Entertainment and Film
* Licht (''Black Clover''), a character in the manga series ''Black Clover''
* '' Licht ins Dunkel'', ...
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Lite (disambiguation)
Lite may refer to:
Food and drugs
* Diet food, food or beverage that is part of a weight loss program or diet
* Diet soda, a version of soda pop
* Low-alcohol beer, beer with little or no alcohol content
** Miller Lite, a brand of light beer
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Lyte (disambiguation)
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An-Nur
Light ( ar, النور, ; The Light) is the 24th chapter of the Quran with 64 verses. The surah takes its name, An Nur, from verse 35.
Summary
*1 This chapter revealed from heaven
*2-3 Law relating to fornication
*4-5 Punishment for defa ...
'' ("Light" or "The Light"), a ''sura'' of the Qur'an
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Pragaash
Pragaash ( ks, प्रागाश्, ''prāgāsh'' — «moonshine») was an all-female Kashmiri rock band consisting of Noma Nazir Bhatt, Aneeqa Khalid and Farah Deeba. The band was formed in December 2012 and received controversy from Isla ...
(translation: "Light"), an all-girl Kashmiri rock band
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