Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the extract.
- noun A cone-shaped area of reflected light on the drum-membrane. Also called
cone of light and pyramid of light.
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Examples
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Greg stared helplessly at the tiny light-spot of the
Gold in the Sky Alan Edward Nourse 1960
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A single last shaft of the sun struck full upon them, a single light-spot in the gathering gloom.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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A new sense-impression came rushing up through the flow of thoughts; and lo! the light-spot jerked away towards it, swifter than a frightened fish.
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Just now the little glow was steady; but the least movement on Mowbray's part, the slightest sound from outside, even a faint difference in the slow movement of the living flesh he was cutting, set the light-spot shivering and spinning.
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A single last shaft of the sun struck full upon them, a single light-spot in the gathering gloom.
The Blazed Trail 1902
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She had eaten apples, but these were as the apples of the gods, lying in a heap of opulence, with a precious light-spot like a ruby on every outward side.
The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891
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The eye was first fixated on the light-spot, and then moved horizontally away toward either the right or the left.
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-- (1) If the arc of movement is small, a short, correctly localized streak is seen extending from the final fixation-point to the light-spot.
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Anglia became for a century the light-spot of European history; and we here recognise the first great stage in the revival of learning, and the first movement towards the establishment of public order in things temporal and spiritual. "
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873
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