Definition of "lightbox" []

• A box containing a source of light and a white, translucent cover, used to view photographic transparencies. (noun)
• A box containing fluorescent tubes, used to treat people with seasonal affective disorder. (noun)

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• "A lightbox is used to sort transparencies (e.g., 35mm slides, 4 x 5 transparencies and larger), and it is literally that, a box with a frosted glass top over a light source (usually color-corrected florescent tube illuminated at 5000K so the colors are displayed accurately)."
• "While the Lightbox effect hasn't been created for Flash yet, there is a way to fuse Flash with the popular Javascript functionality by calling lightbox from within Flash."
• "Note that I've also added a function called lightbox effect to our thumbnails, which is purely for aesthetics."