luminous
The amount of light entering the building is controlled, allowing maximum brightness and luminosity.
The sheer peach lotion gives skin a warm kiss of luminosity , as though you'd just had a facial.
Cool and red, AU Mic shines with about a tenth the Sun's luminosity and has about half its mass.
The system independently detects brightness and luminosity for the best quality photo.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Giving out light
afire
albedo
aura
backlit
beam
beamy
bioluminescence
flicker
gleam
glimmer
glitter
noctilucent
non-glare
non-luminous
out-glitter
overlit
reflected ray
shine
spotlight
wink

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luminosity | American Dictionary

luminosity
noun[ C ]
us/ˌlu·məˈnɑ·sɪ·t̬i/
earth science
the total amount of energy produced by a star in one second

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luminosity
Second, we used curved crystal spectrometers, which have the advantage of high spectral resolution and high luminosity.
This is also required to avoid the ablation plasma flow around the foil edges, which otherwise disturbs the luminosity record.
These changes are transmitted to the outer regions of a star, which results in a steady increase in luminosity and changes in effective temperature.
Measurements of luminosity in affected individuals typically reveal a scotopic function at dim background levels.
A higher luminosity can obviously be preferential for the number of experimental events.
The stellar mass and metallicity, and the initial values of luminosity, effective temperature, core temperature and core pressure were individually set.
Stellar distances and luminosities were calculated using the above data and procedures described in the text.
The luminosity evolution of the main-sequence central star is deduced by polynomial fitting of stellar evolution models.
The model is based on the global carbon cycle mediated by life and driven by increasing stellar luminosity and plate tectonics.
The differences in luminosity are taken to be the result of different accretion rates within the disks.
Solar luminosity is given in column 4 relative to the present output.
The shock luminosity signals recorded in the two targets clearly show the relative shock transit time delay.
We call this property the luminosity of the flow.
Figure 3 shows a typical shock luminosity signal recorded using a polyethylene target, along with the fiducial signal.
Images were customized with respect to the luminosity of each observer.
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