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carry light

American  

noun

Military.
  1. a searchlight used to illuminate a target while it is tracked and fired upon.


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Quantum mechanics operates on incredibly tiny scales, and scientists are constantly developing more precise tools to measure and control phenomena such as photons, the particles that carry light.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

It had been assumed that neutrinos were essentially massless particles, like the photon particles that carry light.

From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2015

To make Newton's physics work, scientists presumed the existence of a substance called ether, which they thought was necessary to carry light waves through space.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thanks to the light loads their large wings carry, "light planes," which commercial pilots call flivvers, pop-bottles, and of which an unprecedented 2,500 are being turned out this year, are all but foolproof.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wandered in and out of the projectile, now and then helping Andy or Washington to carry light objects into the Annihilator.

From Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds by Rockwood, Roy

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