Effulgence vs Sunbeam - What's the difference?
effulgence | sunbeam | Related terms |
A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance.
* 1875 , , New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 457
* 1826 , , Chapter 12
A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.
* 1957 , (Rudolf Arnheim), Film as Art ,
* 2001 , Raymond L. Lee, Alistair B. Fraser, The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science ,
* 2008 (1952), , Roger Greaves (translator), The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt , ISBN 978-0-52025790-0,
(Australia, colloquial, dated) An item of cutlery or crockery laid out on a table, but not used, and which can be returned to the drawer without being washed.“sunbeam ,”
Any butterfly of the genus .
Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis .
Effulgence is a related term of sunbeam.
As nouns the difference between effulgence and sunbeam
is that effulgence is a state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance while sunbeam is a visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.effulgence
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(-)- He stood for a moment taking in the effulgence .
- [...]-the clear effulgence of the stars by night-[...].
sunbeam
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(en noun)page 90,
- I cut-in various other material to this; for instance, a shot of a rushing brook in springtime, with dancing sunbeams reflected in the water; of birds splashing in the village pond; and, finally, of a laughing child.
page 116,
- Similarly, the rays diverging from the sun will pass by you and converge on the point directly opposite the sun, the shadow of your head. All sunbeams', and thus all shadows, appear to converge there.Only perspective makes all shadows appear to converge on the antisolar point. But this point is also the center of the rainbow, so as you look at the rainbow, all ' sunbeams and shadows will lie along radii of the bow as they flow straight to its center.
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- I had frequently had to explain to cameramen that only in the early morning or late in the evening did sunbeams' fall from the window as flat as they were usually found in films. The sun being higher during the hours of work, another way of showing ' sunbeams had to be found.
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