luminosity
Example Sentences
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He aptly describes the projectors’ beams of luminosity as “light sculptures.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
“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
"Their luminosity and chemical production naturally explain the nitrogen-enriched proto-galaxies that we now observe in the early universe with the JWST."
From Science Daily • Nov. 6, 2025
She found a relationship between their variation period, or pulse, and their intrinsic brightness or luminosity.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2025
Each memory stunned her with its blinding luminosity.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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