Usually means: Reflection of light in eyes.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. catchlight: Merriam-Webster
  2. catchlight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catchlight: Wiktionary
  4. catchlight: Dictionary.com
  5. Catchlight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Catchlight: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Catchlight: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (catchlight)

▸ noun:  (photography) A gleam of reflected light in a subject's eye.

Similar:
twinkle, glinting, scintillescence, light, gleaming, glitterance, light of one's eye, shining, glow, glitter, more...

Opposite:
shadow, darkness, absence of light

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Similar:
twinkle, glinting, scintillescence, light, gleaming, glitterance, light of one's eye, shining, glow, glitter, more...

Opposite:
shadow, darkness, absence of light



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