From sky + light.
- IPA(key): /ˈskaɪˌlaɪt/
- Hyphenation: sky‧light
skylight (plural skylights)
- (architecture) A window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light.
- Synonym: oculus
- (physics) Diffuse sky radiation—solar radiation reaching the earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or suspensoids in the atmosphere.
- (volcanology) A hole in the upper part of a lava tube, yielding a view of the lava within.
- A region of flat, thin ice allowing a submarine to surface.
window dome or opening in the roof
- Armenian: երդիկ (hy) (erdik)
- Bulgarian: тавански прозорец (tavanski prozorec)
- Catalan: claraboia (ca), lluerna (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 天窗 (zh) (tiānchuāng)
- Danish: tagvindue (da)
- Dutch: zonnedak (nl) n, koepel (nl) m
- Finnish: kattoikkuna (fi) (window); kattokupu, kattovalokupu (dome); valoaukko (opening)
- French: fenêtre de toit (fr) f, lucarne (fr) f, vélux (fr) m, verrière (fr) f
- Galician: bufarda (gl) f, claraboia f
- German: Dachluke (de) f, Dachfenster (de) n, Dachflächenfenster n
- Hebrew: צֹהַר (he) m (tsohar)
- Hungarian: tetőablak (hu)
- Irish: spéirléas m, forléas m, fuinneog dhín f
- Italian: lucernario (it) m
- Japanese: 天窓 (ja) (てんまど, tenmado)
- Korean: 채광창(採光窓) (chaegwangchang)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: takvindu n
- Polish: świetlik (pl) m
- Portuguese: claraboia (pt)
- Romanian: lucarnă (ro), luminator (ro) n
- Russian: светово́й люк m (svetovój ljuk)
- Scottish Gaelic: leòsan-adhair m
- Serbo-Croatian: svetlarnik m, krovni ptozor m
- Spanish: tragaluz (es) m, claraboya (es) f, celaje m
- Swedish: ljusöppning c, takfönster (sv), taklucka (sv) c
- Tagalog: luneto
- Turkish: aydınlık (tr)
- Ugaritic: 𐎜𐎗𐎁𐎚 (ủrbt)
- Volapük: nufalitöp
- Welsh: ffenestr do f
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solar radiation
- Chinese:
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- Finnish: auringon hajasäteily
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hole in a lava tube
- Chinese:
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- Finnish: laavatunnelin aukko
- Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
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