SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION

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Meaning:

Any device serving as a source of visible electromagnetic radiation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("source of illumination" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "source of illumination"):

lamp (an artificial source of visible illumination)

light; light source (any device serving as a source of illumination)

ultraviolet lamp; ultraviolet source (any source of illumination that emits ultraviolet radiation)