"self-emitting" meaning in English

See self-emitting in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: self- + emitting Etymology templates: {{pre|en|self|emitting}} self- + emitting Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} self-emitting (not comparable)
  1. That emits its own light, rather than receiving it from a backlight. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-self-emitting-en-adj-Z~64ITXs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with self-

Download JSON data for self-emitting meaning in English (0.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "self",
        "3": "emitting"
      },
      "expansion": "self- + emitting",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "self- + emitting",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "self-emitting (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with self-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "An OLED is self-emitting.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That emits its own light, rather than receiving it from a backlight."
      ],
      "id": "en-self-emitting-en-adj-Z~64ITXs",
      "links": [
        [
          "emit",
          "emit"
        ],
        [
          "light",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "receiving",
          "receive"
        ],
        [
          "backlight",
          "backlight"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "self-emitting"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "self",
        "3": "emitting"
      },
      "expansion": "self- + emitting",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "self- + emitting",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "self-emitting (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms prefixed with self-",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncomparable adjectives"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "An OLED is self-emitting.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That emits its own light, rather than receiving it from a backlight."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "emit",
          "emit"
        ],
        [
          "light",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "receiving",
          "receive"
        ],
        [
          "backlight",
          "backlight"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "self-emitting"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.