The Collaborative International Dictionary
Illuminator \Il*lu"mi*na`tor\, n. [L., an enlightener, LL. also, an illuminator of books.]
One whose occupation is to adorn books, especially manuscripts, with miniatures, borders, etc. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.
A condenser or reflector of light in optical apparatus; also, an illuminant.
Wiktionary
n. 1 agent noun of illuminate; one who illuminates; an explainer. 2 An artist who adds illustrations and decorations to illuminated manuscripts(w Limner W).
Wikipedia
framed|An electro luminescent backlight used in some Casio watches like DW-5600E-1V
Illuminator is an LCD backlight technology used in some Casio watches. The Timex corporation has its own similar technology called Indiglo. Casio originally used the Illuminator name for electroluminescent backlights, however it is now used for LED backlights also.
Illuminator may refer to:
- Illuminator (backlight), an electro luminescent backlight used in some Casio watches
- A light source
- Illuminator (sometimes limner), an artist who adds illustrations and decorations to illuminated manuscripts
- Illuminator, a narrowly focused radar beam whose reflected signal is used to obtain a missile lock-on
- The Illuminator, a political art collective based in New York City
Usage examples of "illuminator".
Below them are the Arhats souls, advanced illuminators who still incarnate along with three more lower gradations of evolving souls.
Don Silvestro, a Camaldolese monk, who flourished at the same time as the illuminator of this MS.
A splendidly illuminated atlas by an illuminator and cartographer named Fernando Vas Dourado was published in the year of his death, 1571.
The Dutch illuminators, however, may usually be recognised by the Netherlandish character of the miniatures combined with neat and sometimes rigidly careful penmanship in the scrolls and tendrils and a hardness in the outline of the flowers.
The scenes depicted on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones, are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo illuminators gave free rein to their artistic fantasy long long ago in the time of the Barmecides.
Then another light came on, a narrow-beam illuminator from the news cameras, flicking across the line of Milice and incidentally into their eyes.
The Chapter House of the Guild of Illuminators was marked as well.
With their chapter house burned by the Shaido, a number of Illuminators were trying to find the means to return to Tarabon.
Vast compound eyes shone bright with reflected light from the street illuminators.
There was a dissecting microscope on top of an old metal desk, and I set the magnification to twenty and adjusted the illuminator.
Trying to learn more than the surface of what went on among the Atha'an Miere was like trying to learn how the Guild of Illuminators made fireworks, an exercise in futility.
There were almost as many Illuminators in the city as there were gleemen.
They always came with warnings from the Illuminators that opening one could cause it to go off.
It would be a race as to whether Trollocs or Illuminators reached them first.
The Illuminators were on everyone's tongues in the city, even now, days after the night when they had lofted only one nightflower into the sky, and that early.