luminance

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Usually the monitor with a higher luminance is concidered to be better one.

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  1. noun The condition or quality of being luminous.
  2. noun Physics The intensity of light per unit area of its source.

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  • Greenish, ghostly luminance was cast over miles of desolate dunes and rocks. —  035 - Murder Mirage
  • The hilltop might have been the gullet of some bloated dragon Against the emerald luminance, ugly figures were silhouetted. —  003 - Quest of the Spider
  • They could read, by the street-light luminance, the words scrawled upon it THE GOLD OGRES HAVE SEIZED ME. —  075 - The Gold Ogre
  • Small lights stirred in his flake-gold eyes, a tiny luminance which might have come from the beginning of the short snow-country day The redcoats gave Doc Savage's party most of their attention. —  015 - The Mystery On The Snow
  • The energy conversion from sound, to mechanical implosion, to luminance is pathetic. —  The Explosives and Weapons Forum: Let's outshine the sun
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