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Saturday March 26, 2005

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luculent \LOO-kyuh-luhnt\ , adjective:
Clear; easily understood.

Yet it is always luculent, even when the concepts being expressed become somewhat sophisticated.
-- Dan Schnabel, "Goodbye Descartes", American Mathematical Monthly, November 1998

From the high ground all is clear,
interpretable, luculent: this is what this means.
-- Thomas Lux, The Cradle Place

Luculent comes from Latin luculentus, from lux, luc-, "light."

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