luminosity
the quality of being intellectually brilliant, enlightened, inspired, etc.: The luminosity of his poetry is unequaled.
something luminous.
Astronomy. the brightness of a star in comparison with that of the sun: the luminosity of Sirius expressed as 23 indicates an intrinsic brightness 23 times as great as that of the sun.
Also called luminosity factor. Optics. the brightness of a light source of a certain wavelength as it appears to the eye, measured as the ratio of luminous flux to radiant flux at that wavelength.
Origin of luminosity
1Other words from luminosity
- non·lu·mi·nos·i·ty, noun
- self-lu·mi·nos·i·ty, noun
Words Nearby luminosity
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How to use luminosity in a sentence
In a cathedral, I can get a feeling of luminosity out of the numinous.
The Spiritual Consciousness of Christof Koch - Issue 107: The Edge | Steve Paulson | October 13, 2021 | NautilusMaybe—maybe—some people might have seen a fluorescent luminosity in the original pigments.
How These Rothkos Were Restored Without Touching the Canvas | Adam Rogers | May 30, 2021 | The Daily BeastI wanted to write fiction, which was what Barry was reading, and he had wrapped me in sentences like cords of luminosity.
The first rung consists of “standard candle” stars in and around our own galaxy that have well-defined luminosities, and which are close enough to exhibit parallax — the only sure way to tell how far away things are without traveling there.
Astronomers Get Their Wish, and a Cosmic Crisis Gets Worse | Natalie Wolchover | December 17, 2020 | Quanta MagazineIt basically breaks our understanding of the luminosities and brightnesses that kilonovae are supposed to have.
Astronomers spotted colliding neutron stars that may have formed a magnetar | Lisa Grossman | December 1, 2020 | Science News
These sculptures are in his typical style—figures molded out of colorful stainless steel with striking luminosity.
Lady Gaga’s Jeff Koons-Designed Album Cover Comes to Life | The Daily Beast | November 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNikos Kazantzakis had no problems writing a moving novel of beauty, profundity, and luminosity.
So the plan as of a few years ago in the back of people's minds was to go to a higher luminosity.
Our fellows were being hard beset to hold on to what they had won; there, where the horizon stood out with spectral luminosity.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThe night grows dark, the wind rises and is cold, and the tide changes; so does the luminosity of the sea.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) | VariousOther naturalists who have had opportunities of seeing the insect in its native regions strongly deny its luminosity.
The Romance of Natural History, Second Series | Philip Henry GosseThe ideal method looks to the use of a very rich gas, and the burning of it with a maximum of luminosity.
Recently an extraordinary instance of luminosity was recorded as occurring in our own country.
Fungi: Their Nature and Uses | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
British Dictionary definitions for luminosity
/ (ˌluːmɪˈnɒsɪtɪ) /
the condition of being luminous
something that is luminous
astronomy a measure of the radiant power emitted by a star
physics the attribute of an object or colour enabling the extent to which an object emits light to be observed: Former name: brightness See also colour
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