light-tight

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Etymology[edit]

From light (noun) +‎ tight (adjective).

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Adjective[edit]

light-tight (comparative more light-tight, superlative most light-tight)

  1. Impervious to light; excluding the light perfectly.
    • 2000, Stephen G. Anchell, The darkroom cookbook, page 127:
      From a practical point of view it is not always possible to achieve an absolute lighttight home darkroom.

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  • For other similar compound words, see the derived terms under tight.

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References[edit]

William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “light-tight”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes III (Hoop–O), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 3450.

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