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luminosity

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


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He aptly describes the projectors’ beams of luminosity as “light sculptures.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

This result suggests a relationship between X-ray luminosity and rotation velocity, and that the accretion system changed during the faint phase.

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

She found a relationship between their variation period, or pulse, and their intrinsic brightness or luminosity.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2025

I must have felt pretty weird by that time because I could think of nothing except the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald




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