English

Adjective

light-bearing ‎(comparative more light-bearing, superlative most light-bearing)

1. Bearing or serving as a medium for light; (by extension) luminous; bright
   • 1996, Russian Studies in Philosophy:

     The high worth of diamonds comes from the same source: a super-hard, eternal substance, at the same time a light-bearing, translucent substance, a kind of solid emptiness, a marvelous optical illusion.

   • 2014, Peter Pesic, Music and the Making of Modern Science:

     Others within the Cartesian tradition took the idea of a light-bearing medium in quite different directions. For instance, in 1690 Christiaan Huygens considered light to be a sequence of pulses traveling at a finite velocity within the medium.

See also

• light-bearer