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  • adjective astronomy Having a very high luminosity

Etymologies

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super- +‎ luminous

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Examples

  • The superluminous velocity is similar to a group velocity, which can be faster than light for a single particle or photon.

    Faster-Than-Light Pulsar Phenomena | Universe Today 2010

  • Inside the Golden Capstone, the energy burst rushed down through its seven layers of crystals—at each layer refining the beam into an ever-smaller, ever-more-intense thread of superluminous light.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

  • Inside the Golden Capstone, the energy burst rushed down through its seven layers of crystals—at each layer refining the beam into an ever-smaller, ever-more-intense thread of superluminous light.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

  • Inside the Golden Capstone, the energy burst rushed down through its seven layers of crystals—at each layer refining the beam into an ever-smaller, ever-more-intense thread of superluminous light.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

  • "in the community" - can be fried out of existence using a 470-nanometre superluminous diode, which is safely clear of the UV band. online in advance of publication:

    The Register 2009

  • God, within the union beyond mind, when the mind, having stood apart from all existing things, and then, having dismissed itself, has been united to the superluminous rays — thence and there, being illuminated by the unsearchable wisdom.”

    Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

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  • October 28, 2010

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    October 28, 2010