(a.) Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only; as, a starlight night.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiply the two and you have the velocity of a tsunami, or sound waves, or starlight.
(2) This increase in synaptic gain may compensate for the loss of rod light responsiveness caused by weak background light so that the animal can maintain good rod sensitivity under moonlight or starlight, the natural lighting condition for mating and food catching.
(3) "As soon as some Cruella de Vil in local government tries to seize and smother a library, the alert goes out, a starlight barking of tips about tactics and strategy: leaflets, posters, questions, the works."
(4) That was Northern Starlight, who won under AP over the Grand National fences.
(5) Every surface has a diamantine glitter, an effect accentuated by the starlight glow of thousand of smartphones in the audience.
(6) 5.43am GMT Prime Minister Tony Abbott meets with riders from the Starlight Children Foundation outside Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 27, 2014.
(7) On 7 November 1919, after a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society heard that British observations of an eclipse in west Africa confirmed predictions about the gravitational bending of starlight in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, the Thunderer's headline graciously acknowledged a German intellectual victory : "Revolution in Science – New Theory of the Universe – Newtonian ideas overthrown."
(8) The type of device commonly referred to as a "starlight scope" will amplify available light by a factor of approximately 17 000.
(9) Natural lighting differs from usual artificial lighting mainly as follows: it has larger spectral composition, fluctuations of intensity during the day, higher intensity levels during the night (moonlight, starlight), and gradual changes of illuminance at dawn and dusk.
(10) This intensity range from effective darkness to effective light is roughly from starlight to moonlight.
(11) A military-type starlight vision system was used to conveniently analyze the pattern of gene expression in transgenic tobacco plant leaves.
(12) Top tip: Sunset, starlight and sunrise are particularly magical against the white dunes.
(13) By starlight, a single class of photoreceptors, the rods, function, whereas by daylight, three classes, the blue-, green- and red-sensitive cones, are active and provide colour vision.
(14) Space dust is heated up by starlight but re-emits the radiation as infra-red light.
(15) Where British theatre in previous decades had been famed for its writers, actors and directors, in the 1980s it became identified with its musicals – Cats, Starlight Express, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon.
(16) 6.28am GMT So long, and thanks for all the fish Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrives to meet with riders from the Starlight Children Foundation outside Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 27, 2014.
(17) "In the case of Kepler-20 e and 20 f, we were able to detect a periodic decrease in starlight smaller than 0.01% that occurred every six days for Kepler-20e and another periodic decrease that occurred every 20 days, for around two years.
(18) With his usual blend of earnest ridiculousness, he and his dancers scooted around the stage while also trying not to break their necks, the results looking like a vaguely futuristic Starlight Express revamp.
(19) As a planet transits, the starlight reaching Earth drops, so measuring the size of this effect can tell astronomers the size of the planet.
(20) With highly specific CT, the central, stellate ("starlight") calcifications that are pathognomonic of microcystic adenoma can be distinguished.
Sunlight
Definition:
(n.) The light of the sun.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lighting regimen was 14 h light: 10 h dark, supplied by natural diffused sunlight and incandescent bulbs.
(2) The results suggest that chronic sunlight exposure may be associated with an impediment to normal maturation of human dermal collagen resulting in tenuous amount of HHL.
(3) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
(4) Physicians need to prescribe the lowest possible dose of hormones in these women and counsel them to shield their face from sunlight.
(5) The result, you would have to say, is pretty much exactly that: bordered on one side by the library and town hall, and on the other by the tourist office, the 600 sq ms of Rjukan's market square, to be comprehensively remodelled next year in celebration, now bathes in a focused beam of bright sunlight fully 80-90% as intense as the original.
(6) Certain ultraviolet wavelengths (UVB, 290-320 nm) are thought to be responsible for most of the immediate and long-term pathological consequences of excessive exposure to sunlight.
(7) No association was observed between history of sunlight exposure and senile cataract.
(8) Admittedly, minutes earlier Steven Fletcher’s header from a Lens cross had flown only marginally off target but it represented a rare shaft of sunlight.
(9) On the inner surface of what would be rotating habitats, strips of land would alternate with windows to let in sunlight.
(10) People living in the Far East are exposed to bright sunlight all year round so photoageing of exposed skin is inevitable.
(11) I postulate that people near the equator are exposed to more sunlight and that the ultraviolet light from the sunlight aids in the induction of suppressor cells specific for melanocyte associated antigens.
(12) Data for the incidence of basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) and squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) of the skin, registered for six regions of Norway during 10 years (1976-1985), were used to evaluate the biological amplification factor Ab for induction of these cancers by sunlight.
(13) In an overpopulated future Los Angeles that never sees the sunlight, Deckard is tasked with taking out a gang of replicants (android outlaws) who have escaped to Earth from an off-world colony.
(14) Our field tests had supported the utility of this dosimeter as a reproducible and reliable sunlight dosimeter.
(15) The possibility of insufficient exposure to sunlight could not be determined.
(16) Other triggers included hunger and prolonged exposure to excessive heat or sunlight.
(17) The lips are composed of striated muscle and connective tissue and are anatomically positioned to be maximally exposed to sunlight, environment, food, and tobacco.
(18) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
(19) The disorder first set on after an episode of intensive exposure to sunlight and persisted for 6 years.
(20) When exposed to sunlight creatine kinase was unstable in all the investigated control and patient sera.