- an act or instance of illuminating.
- the fact or condition of being illuminated.
- a decoration of lights, usually colored lights.
- an entertainment, display, or celebration using lights as a major feature or decoration.
- intellectual or spiritual enlightenment.
- the intensity of light falling at a given place on a lighted surface; the luminous flux incident per unit area, expressed in lumens per unit of area.
- a supply of light: a source of illumination.
- decoration of a manuscript or book with a painted design in color, gold, etc.
- a design used in such decoration.
- the act of illuminating or the state of being illuminated
- a source of light
- a light or lights, esp coloured lights, used as decoration in streets, parks, etc
- spiritual or intellectual enlightenment; insight or understanding
- the act of making understood; clarification
- decoration in colours, gold, or silver used on some manuscripts or printed works
- physics another name (not in technical usage) for illuminance
