incident

In a sentence

Six example sentences with incident, each labelled with its topic.

• The incident meter sits beside the subject and reads the illumination arriving there rather than whatever bounces back.

  Photography

• A prism splits the beam only where it is incident on the polished face at a shallow angle.

  Science

• Designers angled the atrium glass so that midday sunshine is incident on the shading fins instead of the desks.

  Architecture

• A solar panel converts only part of the incident light into current, and the rest simply warms the glass.

  Technology

• Fresh snow reflects most of the incident sunlight back into the sky, which keeps the polar spring cold for longer.

  Environment

• The restorer tilted the panel so the incident light raked across it, showing every crack in the varnish.

  Art

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