ray of light
Noun
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Noun
ray of light
- (physics) A path a photon or a group of photons takes through space, visible as a column of light.
- (idiomatic) An inspiring or enlightening person or thing.
- 2009, D.M. Armstrong, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 5:
- I think he was somewhat lost for a political position - a simple conservatism did not attract him - and I make the guess that Arnold had been a spar that he got hold of as he struggled to find a political position. I was certainly in that position, having been persuaded by Anderson, especially at the lunch-hour meetings of his Free-thought Society, of the bankruptcy of the Left. Arnold came to me as a most welcome ray of light.
- 2009, D.M. Armstrong, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 5:
- Russian: луч све́та
- Spanish: rayo de luz
- Spanish: inspiración, musa
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