beer: Types of beer: Diet beers or light beers are fully fermented, low-carbohydrate beers in which enzymes are used to convert normally unfermentable (and high-calorie) carbohydrates to fermentable form. In low-alcohol beers (0.5 to 2.0 percent alcohol) and “alcohol-free” beers (less than 0.1 percent alcohol), alcohol is removed after fermentation by low-temperature…

Alicia Vikander: …action thriller Jason Bourne and The Light Between Oceans, in which she portrayed an anguished wife forced to face the fact that the infant whom she and her husband (played by Michael Fassbender, whom Vikander married in 2017) had rescued from an adrift rowboat years earlier has a living mother…

Rangers, Scottish professional football (soccer) club based in Glasgow. The club is the most successful team in the world in terms of domestic league championships won, with more than 50. It is known for its fierce rivalry with its Glaswegian neighbour, Celtic. The club was founded in 1872 and

Charge of the Light Brigade, disastrous British cavalry charge against heavily defended Russian troops at the Battle of Balaklava that was carried out on Oct. 25 (Oct. 13, Old Style), 1854, during the Crimean War. The suicidal attack placed the British light horse brigade, commanded by the feckless

coal: Macerals: …make up cell walls) and collinite (clear vitrinite that occupies the spaces between cell walls).

lightbulb, electric incandescent lamp based on a glowing metallic filament enclosed within a glass shell filled with an inert gas such as nitrogen. See incandescent lamp;

tactics: Light and heavy cavalry: The next development following chariots was cavalry, which took two forms. From Mongolia to Persia and Anatolia—and, later, on the North American plains as well—nomadic peoples fought principally with missile weapons, especially the bow in its short, composite variety. Equipped with…

muscle: Initiation of contraction: …the myosin molecule called the light chain must be phosphorylated (receive a phosphate group). This phosphorylation is the result of a series of interdependent biochemical reactions that are initiated by the rise in intracellular calcium. For the cell to relax, the concentration of intracellular calcium falls, thus inactivating these biochemical…

liquid: Equilibrium properties: …vapour pressure is called the light component, and that with the lower vapour pressure is called the heavy component.

corn syrup: Light corn syrup has been clarified and decolorized; it is used in baked goods, jams and jellies, and many other food products. Because it does not crystallize when heated, it is particularly valued as an ingredient in candies. Dark corn syrup is made by combining…

light curve, in astronomy, graph of the changes in brightness with time of a star, particularly of the variable type. The light curves of different kinds of variable stars differ in the degree of change in magnitude (i.e., the amount of light flux observed), in the degree of regularity from one

Nova Persei: …this phenomenon, sometimes called a light echo, it is possible to calculate the distance of the nova from Earth, about 1,500 light-years.

filter, in photography, device used to selectively modify the component wavelengths of mixed (e.g., white) light before it strikes the film. Filters may be made of coloured glass, plastic, gelatin, or sometimes a coloured liquid in a glass cell. They are most often placed over the camera lens but

luminaire, Complete lighting unit, consisting of one or more lamps (bulbs or tubes that emit light), along with the socket and other parts that hold the lamp in place and protect it, wiring that connects the lamp to a power source, and a reflector that helps direct and distribute the light.

warship: World War II: …Britain built second-line carriers, called light fleet carriers, which were designed for quick construction. These became the Colossus and Majestic classes, vessels of approximately 15,000 tons that carried about 40 aircraft each. The U.S. war program, meanwhile, included the conversion of a series of cruisers into light carriers of the…

tactics: The armoured offensive: …stressed continued development of the light infantry tactics that had achieved partial success in World War I, found particular favour in Germany, where the Reichswehr was prohibited from developing and deploying heavy weapons and where the chief of staff, Hans von Seeckt, built an elite army that would cut through…

Natalia Ginzburg: title, A Light for Fools), Ginzburg portrayed the crises of the Italian younger generation during the fascist period. Lessico famigliare (1963; Family Sayings) is a novelistic memoir of her upbringing and career. Ginzburg’s novels of the 1970s and ’80s pessimistically explore the dissolution of family ties…

horse: Anatomical adaptations: …or 58 inches) high; and light horses—the saddle or riding horses—which fall in the intermediate size range. Domestic horses tend to be nearsighted, less hardy than their ancestors, and often high-strung, especially Thoroughbreds, where intensive breeding has been focused upon speed to the exclusion of other qualities. The stomach is…

Light in August, novel by William Faulkner, published in 1932, the seventh in the series set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha county, Miss., U.S. The central figure of Light in August is the orphan Joe Christmas, whose mixed blood condemns him to life as an outsider, hated or pitied. Joe is

Olivia de Havilland: …after that, most memorably in Light in the Piazza (1962), Lady in a Cage (1964), and Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). She also appeared in a number of television plays.

industry: Secondary industry: Light, or small-scale, industry may be characterized by the nondurability of manufactured products and a smaller capital investment in plants and equipment, and it may involve nonstandard products, such as customized or craft work. The labour force may be either low skilled, as in textile…

tactics: The armoured offensive: …stressed continued development of the light infantry tactics that had achieved partial success in World War I, found particular favour in Germany, where the Reichswehr was prohibited from developing and deploying heavy weapons and where the chief of staff, Hans von Seeckt, built an elite army that would cut through…

rocket and missile system: Antitank and guided assault: … and the French-designed, internationally marketed MILAN (missile d’infanterie léger antichar, or “light infantry antitank missile”) and HOT (haut subsonique optiquement téléguidé tiré d’un tube, or “high-subsonic, optically teleguided, tube-fired”) were similar in concept and capability to TOW.

James Turrell: …or depth), as seen in The Light Inside at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1999), fill interior spaces with a luminous coloured haze and seemingly palpable planes of light. As a result, his illusory works sometimes created a sense of disorientation.

luminous intensity, the quantity of visible light that is emitted in unit time per unit solid angle. The unit for the quantity of light flowing from a source in any one second (the luminous power, or luminous flux) is called the lumen. The lumen is evaluated with reference to visual sensation. The

jazz-rock: …development of jazz-rock—contemporary jazz, or light jazz—appeared on the radio in the 1980s and ’90s. The most popular kind of fusion music, it abandoned jazz elements almost completely and frequently used a minimum of improvisation. Stars of contemporary jazz included saxophonist Kenny G and the group Spyro Gyra. Two jazz-rock…

lighthouse: Lists of Lights: All maritime countries publish Light Lists, which are comprehensive catalogs of the characteristics and location of all lightships, buoys, and beacons under their control. In the United Kingdom the Digital List of Lights is issued by the Hydrographic Office, under the Board of Admiralty, and in the United States…

machine gun: The light machine gun, also called the squad automatic weapon, is equipped with a bipod and is operated by one soldier; it usually has a box-type magazine and is chambered for the small-calibre, intermediate-power ammunition fired by the assault rifles of its military unit. The medium…

metallurgy: Light metals: Another important development of the late 19th century was the separation from their ores, on a substantial scale, of aluminum and magnesium. In the earlier part of the century, several scientists had made small quantities of these light metals, but the most successful…

exposure meter, photographic auxiliary device that measures the intensity of light and indicates proper exposure (i.e., the combination of aperture and shutter speed) for film or image sensors of a specific sensitivity. Traditional exposure meters are separate handheld devices, though almost every

microbiology: Light microscopy: ” Several modifications of light microscopy are available, such as:

electricity: Electro-optic phenomena: …can be used to modulate light and make it carry information. A crystal widely used for its Pockels effect is potassium dihydrogen phosphate, which has good optical properties and low dielectric losses even at microwave frequencies.

the Doors: Their breakthrough hit, “Light My Fire,” was an anthem in 1967, but it was songs such as “The End”—an 11-minute Oedipal drama with sexually explicit lyrics and a swirling ebb-and-flow arrangement—that established the Doors’ reputation as one of rock’s most potent, controversial, and theatrical acts. Indeed, the group…

Sir Edwin Arnold: …known as the author of The Light of Asia (1879), an epic poem in an elaborately Tennysonian blank verse that describes, through the mouth of an “imaginary Buddhist votary,” the life and teachings of the Buddha. Pearls of the Faith (1883), on Islam, and The Light of the World (1891),…

Eric Ambler: …East or East Asia, including The Light of Day (1962; U.S. title, Topkapi; filmed 1964 and again as The Levanter in 1972), which centres around a terrorist plot against Israel. His much-praised Doctor Frigo (1974) was set on a Caribbean island.

Graham Swift: In 2003 he published The Light of Day, which explores a private investigator’s relationship with a client convicted of murdering her husband. Swift’s novel Tomorrow (2007) returns to themes of the family as a woman lies awake, thinking to the following day when she must reveal a long-suppressed life-altering…

Edna O’Brien: …In the Forest (2002), and The Light of Evening (2006).

Casey Affleck: …starred in his next feature, Light of My Life (2019), playing a father in a dystopian world where females have been all but wiped out by a plague. After appearing in the 19th-century historical drama The World to Come (2020), he was cast as a psychiatrist in the thriller Every…

Gershom ben Judah was an eminent rabbinical scholar who proposed a far-reaching series of legal enactments (taqqanot) that profoundly molded the social institutions of medieval European Jewry. He was called the light of the exile and also Rabbenu (“Our Teacher,” a title of reverence). As head of

William Holman Hunt: …Hunt; but, in 1854 “The Light of the World” (Keble College, Oxford), an allegory of Christ knocking at the door of the human soul, was championed by John Ruskin and brought Hunt his first public success. In 1854 Hunt began a two-year visit to Syria and Palestine, where he completed…

petroleum: Specific gravity: heavy oils, and medium and light oils on the basis of specific gravity (i.e., the ratio of the weight of equal volumes of the oil and pure water at standard conditions, with pure water considered to equal 1) and relative mobility. Bitumen is an immobile degraded remnant of ancient petroleum;…

B.K.S. Iyengar: …a foreword to Iyengar’s treatise Light on Yoga (1965). That seminal work featured some 600 photographs of Iyengar demonstrating the asanas and proved to be a great success in Europe and the U.S.

comic opera, general designation for musical plays with light subject matter and happy endings. The dialogue is usually spoken, rather than sung. In addition to operetta and musical comedy, types of comic opera include Italian opera buffa (which has sung dialogue), German Singspiel, English ballad

lighthouse: Identification: Most lighthouses rhythmically flash or eclipse their lights to provide an identification signal. The particular pattern of flashes or eclipses is known as the character of the light, and the interval at which it repeats itself is called the period. The number of different characters that…

light pollution, unwanted or excessive artificial light. Like noise pollution, light pollution is a form of waste energy that can cause adverse effects and degrade environmental quality. Moreover, because light (transmitted as electromagnetic waves) is typically generated by electricity, which

radio: Growth of the BBC: The Light Programme first aired in July 1945 in an attempt to hold listeners who were increasingly returning to a revitalized and entertainment-oriented Radio Luxembourg. Reaching 70 percent of BBC listeners, it focused more on popular (light and dance) music, drama, and outside (remote) broadcasts. The…

photon, minute energy packet of electromagnetic radiation. The concept originated (1905) in Albert Einstein’s explanation of the photoelectric effect, in which he proposed the existence of discrete energy packets during the transmission of light. Earlier (1900), the German physicist Max Planck had

laser: Surveying: Pulsed laser radar can measure distance in the same manner as microwave radar by timing how long it takes a laser pulse to bounce back from a distant object. For instance, in 1969 laser radar precisely measured the distance from the Earth to the Moon, and…

light rail transit, system of railways usually powered by overhead electrical wires and used for medium-capacity local transportation in metropolitan areas. Light rail vehicles (LRVs) are a technological outgrowth of streetcars (trams). Light rail transit lines are more segregated from street

lighthouse: Geographic range and luminous range: The range at which a light can be seen depends upon atmospheric conditions and elevation. Since the geographic horizon is limited by the curvature of Earth, it can be readily calculated for any elevation by standard geometric methods. In lighthouse work the observer is always assumed…

photoreception, any of the biological responses of animals to stimulation by light. In animals, photoreception refers to mechanisms of light detection that lead to vision and depends on specialized light-sensitive cells called photoreceptors, which are located in the eye. The quality of vision

human nervous system: The eye: This response, called the light reflex, is regulated by three structures: the retina, the pretectum, and the midbrain. In the retina is a three-neuron circuit consisting of light-sensitive photoreceptors (rods), bipolar cells, and retinal ganglion cells. The latter transmit luminosity information to the pretectum, where particular types of neurons…

proustite, a sulfosalt mineral, silver arsenic sulfide (Ag3AsS3), that is an important source of silver. Sometimes called ruby silver because of its scarlet-vermilion colour, it occurs in the upper portions of most silver veins, where it is less common than pyrargyrite. Large, magnificent crystals,

sleep: Light and deep sleep: …the various NREM stages is light sleep and which is deep sleep? The criteria used to establish sleep depth are the same as those used to distinguish sleep from wakefulness. In terms of motor behaviour, motility decreases (depth increases) from stages 1 through 3. By criteria of sensory responsivity, thresholds…

Sam Rockwell: Brooklyn (1989), Strictly Business (1991), Light Sleeper (1992), Somebody to Love (1994), and The Search for One-Eye Jimmy (1994). However, it was his leading role as an eccentric free spirit in Box of Moonlight (1996) that first gained him widespread attention. He later had starring roles in such independent films…

William Wellman: Films of the late 1930s of William Wellman: Wellman’s follow-up was The Light That Failed (1939), a sensitive adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story that starred Ronald Colman and Ida Lupino.

The Light That Failed, novel by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1890. The book, which includes autobiographical elements, describes the youth and manhood of Dick Heldar and traces his efforts as a war correspondent and artist whose sketches of British battles in Sudan become popular. When he returns

seasonal affective disorder: …primary treatment for SAD is light therapy, which involves exposing the affected person to bright light, usually from a fixture called a light box. Fluorescent light tubes placed behind a screen that filters out potentially harmful ultraviolet rays are commonly used. Fixtures using light-emitting diodes also may be effective, though…

agricultural technology: Mechanical and cultural controls: Light traps that give off radiation that attracts insects have been under test for many years. They have been somewhat successful in controlling the codling moth (Carpocapsa pomonella) and the tobacco hornworm (Protoparce sexta).

light verse, poetry on trivial or playful themes that is written primarily to amuse and entertain and that often involves the use of nonsense and wordplay. Frequently distinguished by considerable technical competence, wit, sophistication, and elegance, light poetry constitutes a considerable body

Michelle Obama: Two years later Michelle published The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, in which she offered insights into handling difficult times, using her own personal experiences as examples.

Kylie Minogue: …traditional dance-pop on the album Light Years (2000), which boasts such hits as “Spinning Around.” Minogue continued in that vein the following year with Fever (2001). On the strength of its sultry single “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” which went to number one in multiple countries (and to…

Tadao Andō: In his Church of Light (1990) in the Ōsaka suburb of Ibaraki, for example, a cruciform shape is cut out of the concrete wall behind the altar; when daylight hits the outside of this wall, a cross of light is generated within the interior.

Francis Light was a British naval officer who was responsible for acquiring Penang (Pinang) Island in the Strait of Malacca as a British naval base. Light served in the Royal Navy from 1759 until 1763. In command of a merchant ship, he went in 1771 to the northern Malay state of Kedah, where he won

scientific modeling: model of light and the particle model of light, which together describe the wave-particle duality in which light is understood to possess both wave and particle functions. The wave theory and the particle theory of light were long considered to be at odds with one another. In the early 20th…

speed of light, speed at which light waves propagate through different materials. In particular, the value for the speed of light in a vacuum is now defined as exactly 299,792,458 metres per second. The speed of light is considered a fundamental constant of nature. Its significance is far broader

scientific modeling: This is illustrated by the wave model of light and the particle model of light, which together describe the wave-particle duality in which light is understood to possess both wave and particle functions. The wave theory and the particle theory of light were long considered to be at odds with…

South Australia: European settlement: William Light was responsible for the much-admired plan for the city of Adelaide, which was sited a short distance inland from the first landing on the shores of Gulf St. Vincent.

oscillograph: The light-beam oscillograph has much less weight to move than does the pen-writing instrument and so responds satisfactorily to higher frequencies, about 500 Hz, or cycles per second, compared with 100 Hz for the pen assembly. It uses a coil to which a small mirror is…

LED, in electronics, a semiconductor device that emits infrared or visible light when charged with an electric current. Visible LEDs are used in many electronic devices as indicator lamps, in automobiles as rear-window and brake lights, and on billboards and signs as alphanumeric displays or even

LED, in electronics, a semiconductor device that emits infrared or visible light when charged with an electric current. Visible LEDs are used in many electronic devices as indicator lamps, in automobiles as rear-window and brake lights, and on billboards and signs as alphanumeric displays or even

information processing: Printers: Light-emitting diode (LED) printers resemble laser printers in operation but direct light from energized diodes rather than a laser onto a photoconductive surface. Ion-deposition printers make use of technology similar to that of photocopiers for producing electrostatic images. Another type of nonimpact printer, the ink-jet…

light-frame construction, System of construction using many small and closely spaced members that can be assembled by nailing. It is the standard for U.S. suburban housing. The balloon-frame house with wood cladding, invented in Chicago in the 1840s, aided the rapid settlement of the western U.S.

John Robert Gregg: …had published a 28-page pamphlet, Light-Line Phonography (1888), presenting his own shorthand alphabet, which was phonetic and based on the regular cursive movements of familiar longhand. This alphabet later was adapted to 13 languages.

Gregg shorthand, system of rapid writing based on the sounds of words that uses the curvilinear motion of ordinary longhand. Devised by the Irishman John Robert Gregg (1867–1948), who originally called it light-line phonography and published under that name in pamphlet form in 1888 in England, the

nuclear reactor: Light-water reactors: Light-water reactors (LWRs) are power reactors that are cooled and moderated with ordinary water. There are two basic types: the pressurized-water reactor (PWR) and the boiling-water reactor (BWR). In the PWR, water at high pressure and temperature removes heat from…

light-year, in astronomy, the distance traveled by light moving in a vacuum in the course of one year, at its accepted velocity of 299,792,458 metres per second (186,282 miles per second). A light-year equals about 9.46073 × 1012 km (5.87863 × 1012 miles), or 63,241 astronomical units. About 3.262

Jim Lightbody was an American athlete, a preeminent middle-distance runner of the early 20th century. At the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis he won four medals, including three gold medals, and he added two more medals in the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens. Lightbody attended the University of

Jim Lightbody was an American athlete, a preeminent middle-distance runner of the early 20th century. At the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis he won four medals, including three gold medals, and he added two more medals in the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens. Lightbody attended the University of

lightbulb, electric incandescent lamp based on a glowing metallic filament enclosed within a glass shell filled with an inert gas such as nitrogen. See incandescent lamp;

lighter, shallow-draft boat or barge, usually flat-bottomed, used in unloading (lightening) or loading ships offshore. Use of lighters requires extra handling and thus extra time and expense and is largely confined to ports without enough traffic to justify construction of piers or wharves.

lighter: …ships in a combination called LASH (lighter aboard ship).

airplane: Lighter-than-air: Aircraft such as balloons, nonrigid airships (blimps), and dirigibles are designed to contain within their structure a sufficient volume that, when filled with a gas lighter than air (heated air, hydrogen, or helium), displaces the surrounding ambient air and floats, just as a cork…

bristlemouth, (family Gonostomatidae), any of the approximately 33 species of oceanic fishes (order Stomiiformes), occurring in tropical regions of the major oceans and characterized by luminescent organs on the undersides of their bodies. They inhabit moderate depths and are often referred to as

Gordon Lightfoot was a Canadian singer and songwriter who was known for his folk-oriented pop singles of the 1960s and ’70s. While Lightfoot enjoyed international acclaim, he was especially revered in Canada, where he was considered one of the country’s leading musicians. Lightfoot began performing

continental landform: Historical survey: John Lightfoot, an English divine and Hebraist, was so stimulated by this revelation that he additionally observed that the exact time was October 26 at 9:00 am! This meant that all of the Earth’s surface features had to have been formed in less than 6,000…

Fenton J. A. Hort: …biblical scholars including Westcott and Joseph Barber Lightfoot, and he maintained the connection throughout his life. From 1852 to 1857, he was a fellow of the university, returning in 1872 as professor, which position he retained until his death. In 1856 he was ordained in the Anglican Church and for…

Lori Lightfoot is an American Democratic politician and attorney who served as mayor of Chicago (2019–23). She was the first African American woman and the first openly gay person to hold that office. Throughout her childhood Lightfoot’s family struggled financially. Her father, who had lost his

Lori Lightfoot is an American Democratic politician and attorney who served as mayor of Chicago (2019–23). She was the first African American woman and the first openly gay person to hold that office. Throughout her childhood Lightfoot’s family struggled financially. Her father, who had lost his

Sir James Lighthill was a British mathematician who was considered one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. His innovative contributions to such fields as applied mathematics, aerodynamics, astrophysics, and fluid mechanics found such applications as the design of the supersonic

Sir James Lighthill was a British mathematician who was considered one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. His innovative contributions to such fields as applied mathematics, aerodynamics, astrophysics, and fluid mechanics found such applications as the design of the supersonic

lighthouse, structure, usually with a tower, built onshore or on the seabed to serve as an aid to maritime coastal navigation, warning mariners of hazards, establishing their position, and guiding them to their destinations. From the sea a lighthouse may be identified by the distinctive shape or

Winifred Holt: …to a permanent location, The Lighthouse, in February 1913.

lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and the most famous lighthouse in antiquity. It was a technological triumph and is the archetype of all lighthouses since. Built by Sostratus of Cnidus, perhaps for Ptolemy I Soter, it was finished during the reign of Soter’s son

Willem Dafoe: Dafoe’s credits from 2019 included The Lighthouse, about two lighthouse keepers in the 1890s; Motherless Brooklyn, a crime drama adapted from the novel by Jonathan Lethem; and Togo, a Disney drama about the “Great Race of Mercy,” in which dog-sled teams were used to distribute medicine during a diphtheria epidemic…

Jeanette Winterson: She later published Lighthousekeeping (2004), an exploration of the nature of storytelling told through the tale of an orphaned girl sent to live in a Scottish lighthouse; The Stone Gods (2007), a foray into science fiction; and The Daylight Gate (2012), set amid witch trials in 17th-century Lancashire.…

horseshoe shrimp: Lightiella incisa, about 2.6 mm (0.10 inch) in length, is found in waters near Puerto Rico; L. serendipita, 3.2 mm (0.13 inch) long, occurs in San Francisco Bay on the coast of California. Sandersiella acuminata, 2.4 mm (0.094 inch) long, is found in waters near…

horseshoe shrimp: serendipita, 3.2 mm (0.13 inch) long, occurs in San Francisco Bay on the coast of California. Sandersiella acuminata, 2.4 mm (0.094 inch) long, is found in waters near Japan and New Caledonia.

lighting, use of an artificial source of light for illumination. It is a key element of architecture and interior design. Residential lighting uses mainly either incandescent lamps or fluorescent lamps and often depends heavily on movable fixtures plugged into outlets; built-in lighting is