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Skylight vs Toplight - What's the difference?

skylight | toplight |

As nouns the difference between skylight and toplight

is that skylight is a window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light while toplight is (nautical) a lantern or light on the top of a vessel.

skylight

English

(wikipedia skylight)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light.
  • —solar radiation reaching the earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or suspensoids in the atmosphere

    • toplight

    English

    Alternative forms

    * top-light

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A lantern or light on the top of a vessel.
    • (Webster 1913)