Light
Light may refer to any of the following:
1. With vision, light is electromagnetic radiation the human eye can detect. More plainly, light makes objects and our surroundings visible to us. The Sun is a good example of a source that provides light and heat on Earth. With a computer, there are many types of lights. The most common are LEDs (light-emitting diodes), indicator lights often on the computer case, keyboards, monitors, and other locations.
Light terms
The following list is other computer-related terms containing "light" in them. Visiting any of these links gives you further information about that type of light.
- Access light
- Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode.
- Ambient light
- Blue light
- Cold cathode fluorescent lighting.
- Keyboard light
- Light pen
- Light mode
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2. When describing a color, light is a pale or less saturated version. For example, light blue is softer than regular blue.
3. With weight, light is anything that is not very heavy relative to another similar object. For example, an ultra-light laptop computer is lighter than a standard laptop and much lighter than the original luggable computers.