glossiness
glossy
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈɡlɒs.i/ us /ˈɡlɑː.si/
a glossy magazine（同 glossy magazine）
US
a photograph printed on smooth shiny paper用亮光纸打印的照片

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Newspapers & magazines
above/below the foldidiom
annal
anti-press
back copy
broadsheet
comic
editorial
fold
ft
full-page
gazette
glossy magazine
house journal
organ
pulp
quarterly
rag
reader
sentinel
serialize

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Photography

glossy | American Dictionary

glossy
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
us/ˈɡlɑs·i, ˈɡlɔ·si/
smooth and shiny:
He has straight, glossy black hair.
A glossy magazine or photograph is one printed on shiny paper.

Examples of glossy

glossy
Line drawings should be original and submitted as glossy photographs of high resolution.
The seeds are uniformly bright rosy red, glossy, hard, and oval to slightly squarish.
Production values are impressive, with the whole book printed on heavy, glossy paper.
Line drawings should be directly reproducible; glossy prints should be furnished for all halftone illustrations.
Glossy photographs should be submitted in standard formats with inclusion of magnification reference when appropriate.
The early handful of studio sets have given way to a use of external action and most recently to moody ambient glossy city travelogue style.
This slip generally preserves well and is characteristically a wellpolished, clear, glossy bright red.
The book contains some excellent glossy photographic figures and some not so glossy where printed in the text.
Furthermore, the use of color throughout, with glossy maps, gives the look of accessibility.
In this case, the stimuli were printed on glossy paper and placed in front of the animal's cage.
The queries were constructed by taking pictures from a glossy magazine, and generating phrases which might elicit a related image.
But, there is another thing that exists behind the glossy surface, the unlimited budget of the client.
Despite the glossy production and its suggestion of sensationalism, the descriptions of what was demonstrated at the sites are sound and informative.
Their settling percentages on glossy blue and black were greater than on matt blue and black.
The glossy shine of trap surfaces did not have any significant effect on the attraction and landing responses of the two species.
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