Definition of Light-tight

1. Adjective. Not penetrable by light. "Lightproof containers"

Exact synonyms: Lightproof
Similar to: Opaque

Lexicographical Neighbors of Light-tight

light-hearted
light-heartedly
light-horseman
light-ion fusion
light-legged
light-minded
light-mindedness
light-near dissociation
light-o'-love
light-of-love
light-off temperature
light-repressible receptor protein kinase
light-scattering photometry
light-sensitive
light-skinned
light-tight (current term)
light-water reactor
light-year
light a fire under
light adaptation
light air
light as a feather
light at the end of the tunnel
light ballast
light bath
light beam
light beer
light bread
light breeze
light brown

Literary usage of Light-tight

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"Rays coming from an object and д light-tight box, with a convex lens at one rad Fie. 3. ... lighttight ..."

2. The Complete Photographer by Roger Child Bayley (1906)
"... the light—The »sink and water supply—Splash preventers—Shelves—Dishes, porcelain or otherwise—For large work—Measures and scales—A light-tight drawer. ..."

3. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"Whistling, humming, drinking, drumming, Light, tight, and airy ! TWAS at the town of nate Clogheen That Serjeant Snap met Paddy Carey ; A claner boy was ..."

4. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1900)
"By enclosing the whole in a light-tight box or chamber, inserting the negative in an aperture in the proper position in the front of the box, and placing an ..."

5. The Photographic Journal of America: The Oldest Photography Magazine in America (1915)
"The light- tight storage compartments for the blue-printing paper before and after ... The blue-print paper is then delivered to the light- tight storage ..."

6. The American Amateur Photographer (1889)
"To test the light-tight qualities of a bellows, put the plate-holder in position, remove the lens board, then while holding the camera in bright sunlight, ..."

7. American Druggist (1889)
"The joint must be made light-tight by lining the end of tube В with velvet ... It is also fixed light-tight to the tube of the microscope in the same manner ..."

8. Diseases of the heart and aorta by Arthur Douglass Hirschfelder (1918)
"The essential part of the photographic apparatus itself is a light-tight box with a slit, past which a film or strip of highly sensitized paper is rotated ..."

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