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illuminant

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From French.

noun illuminants

  1. Something that illuminates. They seemed to note the positions of the window at the one end and the door almost at the other, and even to take into account the single pendent electric light which up till then had been the sole illuminant.

adjective

  1. not comparable That illuminates.

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"illuminant." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/illuminant. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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illuminant. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/illuminant

Chicago

"illuminant." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/illuminant.

BibTeX
@misc{illuminant_2026,
  title = {illuminant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/illuminant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}