photometric brightness

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See luminance.

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Hop in bed with your iPad or iPhone and turn the brightness all the way up.
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Consumer Reports last month actually ran one for 25,000 hours straight and it still maintained its brightness.
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Cider boasts acidity and (generally) effervescence, both of which cleanse the palate and add brightness and lift to rich dishes.
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But it gave the video a particular look—a particular brightness for the colors.
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Viewers may need to lower screen brightness or don some sunglasses.
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The poor must look to the brightness of a future world for the consolation that they were denied in this.
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Robert's going had some way taken the brightness, the color, the meaning out of everything.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Sickness had never blanched the warm glow on her cheeks, or dimmed the brightness of her large, lustrous eyes.
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie
I met him on Kingstown promenade the other day walking with an elastic step and with the brightness of youth in his eye.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
It was a golden day, almost incredibly clear and radiant, quivering with brightness and life, and surely with ecstasy.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens