Log in or Sign up
  1. luminosity love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The condition or quality of being luminous.
  2. n. Something luminous.
  3. n. The ratio of luminous flux at a specific wavelength to the radiant flux at the same wavelength. Also called luminosity factor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The quality of being luminous or bright; luminousness; the radiation or reflection of light.
  2. n. Specifically, the intensity of light in a color, measured photometrically. That is to say, a standard light has its intensity, or vis viva, altered until it produces the impression of being equally bright with the color whose luminosity is to be determined; and the measure of the vis viva of the altered light relatively to its standard intensity is then taken as the luminosity of the color in question.
  3. n. In botany, phosphorescence.

Wiktionary

  1. n. uncountable the state of being luminous, or a luminous object; brilliance or radiance
  2. n. physics the ratio of luminous flux to radiant flux at the same wavelength; the luminosity factor
  3. n. astronomy the rate at which a star radiates energy in all directions

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality or state of being luminous; luminousness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light

Examples

  • “The word luminosity describes the nature of celestial light, and the music of composer James Whitbourn is a celebration of that light: peaceful, radiant and clear.”

    NPR: James Whitbourn's Celestial Sounds

  • “The rods detect motion — changes in luminosity — better than do the cones.”

    Double Words Optical Illusion – Ambigram

  • “Polaris fluctuates in its short-term luminosity as well.”

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

  • “25In their reply, Pettersson and Kirsch stressed the fact that the ratio in luminosity between alpha and H-particles (protons) does not permit such a mistake as Bates and Rogers attributed to them. 38 On July 19, even before the articles were published, Rutherford sent his results to Pettersson. 39 In a friendly and grateful response on July 27, Pettersson tried to reconcile and explain the discrepancies.”

    Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna

  • “ rates rate of change in star rotation rate star magnetic field variability stellar wind strength and variability short period variation in parent star diameter star's carbon to oxygen ratio star's space velocity relative to Local Standard of Rest star's short term luminosity variability star's long term luminosity variability amplitude and duration of star spot cycle number ”

    Reasons To Believe -

  • “How could the observer call the luminosity thus produced?”

    Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency

  • “The orchestration here is very thick, but not at all heavy or cluttered; in fact, it has a uniquely peculiar luminosity, which is animated by its actually relatively thin, more truly contrapuntal texture.”

    Sequenza21/

  • “Buddhism is less tongue-tied than this: reality has all the qualities of a Buddha, wakefulness, intelligence, compassion — attributes which are often called "luminosity" to distinguish it from sheer lack of existence.”

    Hegel on Buddhism

  • “The third turning teachings are often called "luminosity" to distinguish them from the second turning teachings on emptiness, though they are said not to contradict this view, but to complement it.”

    Hegel on Buddhism

  • “Diaz has turned at long last to Photoshop and the result is that his illustrations, rather than becoming mechanical or hackneyed, have taken on a kind of luminosity never achieved before.”

    Review of the Day: Cesar - Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can!

Show 10 more examples...

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

synonyms (26)

Words with the same meaning

  1. luminousness
  2. self-luminousness
  3. brightness
  4. brilliance
  5. shine
  1. shining
  2. splendor
  3. refulgence
  4. effulgence
  5. bright
  1. lightfulness
  2. fulgor
  3. lightness
  4. lightsomeness
  5. lucency
  1. lucidity
  2. lucidness
  3. illumination
  4. fire
  5. flame
  1. glare
  2. blaze
  3. dazzle
  4. dazzlingness
  5. incandescency
  1. luminescence

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. physical property

hyponyms (5)

Words that are more specific

  1. luminescence
  1. illuminance
  1. glow
  1. illumination
  1. incandescence

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. luminescence
  2. phosphorescence
  3. half-light
  4. coruscation
  1. radiance
  2. shimmer
  3. illumination
  4. iridescence
  1. halo
  2. sheen
  3. greyness
  4. luster
  1. whiteness
  2. cloudland
  3. magnitudes
  4. grayness
  1. clarity
  2. blur
  3. brilliancy
  4. parallax
  1. lamplight
  2. blob
  3. pallor
  4. coloration

reverse dictionary (44)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. glow
  2. main sequence
  3. shade
  4. self-luminosity
  5. pointillism
  6. triboluminescence
  7. myrtle-green
  8. oil-green
  1. parrot-green
  2. salmon-color
  3. slate-black
  4. smoke-gray
  5. conspicuity
  6. grass-green
  7. lampyrinæ
  8. luminosity
  1. supergiant
  2. dwarf star
  3. fire
  4. wildfire
  5. flare star
  6. livid
  7. value
  8. zirconia
  1. buff
  2. candlepower
  3. citrine
  4. color-sensation
  5. dim
  6. gray
  7. hue
  8. light
  1. liver-color
  2. maroon
  3. phosphorescent
  4. photogenic
  5. pink
  6. sea-green
  7. slate
  8. sparkle
  1. counterglow
  2. tiger' s-eye
  3. tint
  4. vision

Wordmap

(beta)

Word visualization

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘luminosity’.

More lists containing ‘luminosity’

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • knitandpurl "But I hesitated for an instant, for the sky-blue border of her dress added to her face a beauty, a luminosity, without which she would have seemed to me harder."
    birds, symbols of death and resurrection."
    --The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 538 of the Modern Library paperback edition Feb 10, 2010

  • knitandpurl "And yet one did not find in Bergotte's speech a certain luminosity which in his books, as in those of some other writers, often modified in the written sentence the appearance of its words."
    -- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 173 of the Modern Library paperback edition Apr 20, 2008

Tweets

Looking for tweets for luminosity.

‘luminosity’ has been looked up 2563 times, loved by 4 people, added to 18 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 15.