luminiferous

Definitions

lumini- (light) + fer (carry) + -ous = 'light-bearing.' Famous in 19th-century physics: the 'luminiferous aether,' the hypothetical medium once imagined to carry light through space.

Common Collocations

• 1.luminiferous aether/ether光以太
• 2.luminiferous medium传光介质

Example Sentences

• 1.

  Nineteenth-century physicists proposed a luminiferous aether to carry light.

• 2.

  The luminiferous aether theory was abandoned after experiments failed to detect it.