All 16 Uses
luminous
in
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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- It made a full circle around the frigate—then doing fourteen knots—and wrapped us in sheets of electricity that were like luminous dust.†
Chpt 1 *
- I stared at the luminous ripples breaking over my hands, shimmering sheets spattered with blotches of bluish gray.†
Chpt 1
- After involuntarily closing my eyes, I reopened them and saw that this luminous force came from a frosted half globe curving out of the cabin's ceiling.†
Chpt 1
- But this luminous globe hadn't been turned on without good reason.†
Chpt 1
- A luminous ceiling, decorated with delicate arabesques, distributed a soft, clear daylight over all the wonders gathered in this museum.†
Chpt 1
- When the device is operating, this gas becomes luminous and gives off a continuous whitish light.†
Chpt 1
- There the dust that saturates the air gives such rays the appearance of a luminous fog; but above water as well as underwater, shafts of electric light are transmitted with incomparable clarity.†
Chpt 1
- Ned Land and Conseil were observing the luminous waters through the gaping panels.†
Chpt 1
- This effect was caused by myriads of tiny, luminous animals whose brightness increased when they glided over the metal hull of our submersible.†
Chpt 1
- In the midst of these luminous sheets of water, I then glimpsed flashes of light, like those seen inside a blazing furnace from streams of molten lead or from masses of metal brought to a white heat—flashes so intense that certain areas of the light became shadows by comparison, in a fiery setting from which every shadow should seemingly have been banished.†
Chpt 1
- Then smaller fish appeared: miscellaneous triggerfish, leather jacks, unicornfish, and a hundred others that left stripes on this luminous atmosphere in their course.†
Chpt 1
- Just then the luminous globe lighting our cell went out, leaving us in profound darkness.†
Chpt 1
- Their luminous trail guided us to the Nautilus.†
Chpt 1
- Such a vacuum also reduced wear on the graphite points between which the luminous arc expanded.†
Chpt 2
- Among other specimens in these two branches, I noted some windowpane oysters with thin valves of unequal size, a type of ostracod unique to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, then orange—hued lucina with circular shells, awl—shaped auger shells, some of those Persian murex snails that supply the Nautilus with such wonderful dye, spiky periwinkles fifteen centimeters long that rose under the waves like hands ready to grab you, turban snails with shells made of horn and bristling all over with spines, lamp shells, edible duck clams that feed the Hindu marketplace, subtly luminous jellyfish of the species Pelagia panopyra, and finally some wonderful Oculina flabelliforma, magnificent sea fans th†
Chpt 2
- On its platform and on the embankment, crewmen were bustling around, black shadows that stood out clearly in the midst of the luminous air.†
Chpt 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence) -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, luminous can mean beautiful, inspiring, or beautifully clear and understandable.