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luminosity

[loo-muh-nos-i-tee] / ˌlu məˈnɒs ɪ ti /
NOUN
radiance
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Antonyms
STRONG


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The goal is to increase the "luminosity" -- that is, the total number of collisions produced over a given period -- by a factor of 10 compared to the LHC.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

The research team investigated the long-term evolution of the X-ray luminosity and rotation period of P13 from 2011 to 2024, using the archival data of XMM-Newton, Chandra, NuSTAR, and NICER.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 14, 2025

“I have no medium that can give me color of such wonderful luminosity as the Autochrome plate,” wrote the photographer Edward Steichen in 1908.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

These fanciful instances benefit from Mari Fukuhara’s score, a drizzle of aural luminosity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

Each memory stunned her with its blinding luminosity.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

High-sensitivity observations have discovered objects with extremely high X-ray luminosities.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 14, 2025

"This allows us to help explain the extreme luminosities of active galactic nuclei as well as the acceleration of particles to nearly the speed of light."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2025

Suvi Gezari, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, says the observations extend the phenomenon of red novae to much lower luminosities and into the regime of planetary engulfments.

From Science Magazine ● May 3, 2023

The brutal fury of a system like WR 140 is undeniable, from the incredible luminosities of its stars to the cosmic tsunami of dusty winds they blast away.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2022

Colors of like luminosities yield the illusion less strikingly, nevertheless they yield it.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg




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