halation.

1. The spread of light beyond a bright area in a developed photograph, producing a surrounding glow.

2. A bright ring appearing around a bright object shown on a television screen.

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Words that belong together

• film halation
• red halation
• reduce halation

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Halation spread a faint red rim around the streetlamp in the film photograph.

Usage notes

Primary category: poetic / figurative / atmospheric. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Commonness: uncommon (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Two source-supported image effects: developed photographic light spread and a luminous television-screen ring. Not every physical halo is halation. Writing functions: atmospheric description, sensory precision.