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luminance

About 0.97 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The quality of being luminous.
  2. noun The amount of light that passes through, is emitted, or is reflected from a particular area, and falls within a given solid angle.
  3. noun The luminous flux emitted in a given direction divided by the product of the projected area of the source element perpendicular to the direction and the solid angle containing that direction (i.e. luminous intensity divided by unit area), measured in stilbs or apostilbs.

Similar words

luminosity luminousness brightness light illumination lightness chrominance lucency luminousity lustrousness

Often followed by

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Word family

luminances

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