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Sun-ray   /sən-reɪ/   Listen
Sun-ray

noun
1.
A ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp.  Synonym: sunray.



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"Sun-ray" Quotes from Famous Books



... understand anything about the wireless telegraph you will grasp what I mean; in itself the wireless, of course, involves transmitted power. Let us transform and amplify that power and we encompass—destruction. The air is filled with energy. A sun-ray is energy; you will recall that Archimedes concentrated it through immense burning-glasses which set fire to ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... the afternoon and the western sun thrust bars of light across the dim chamber which the fresh young voice of the speaker had hushed into silence. Ida had sent a bunch of flowers to his desk and upon that bouquet the intrusive sun-ray fell, like something wild that loved the rose, but as the speaker went on it clambered up his stalwart side and rested at last upon his head as though ...
— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland

... arm around her and pressed her to his bosom, briefly, but heartily. Through his head passed at that moment the recollection of something unimportant which he had seen on a time: a golden sun-ray, which, flashing from behind clouds, had torn them apart, and disclosed a strip of clear azure beyond. He saw this through a window of a railroad car, mechanically, as we see things to which we are ...
— The Argonauts • Eliza Orzeszko (AKA Orzeszkowa)



Words linked to "Sun-ray" :   sunray, ultraviolet, UV, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet radiation, ultraviolet illumination



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