brightness

Example Sentences

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Vinegar can add flavor, heft, punch, levity, brightness — and, of course, a real wallop of acid.

From Salon

And other work showed that this superlative brightness didn't stem from overly powerful jets.

From Scientific American

By measuring the brightness of the star and planet together compared with that of the star alone, astronomers could calculate how much came from the planet.

From Scientific American

Another possible explanation for the galaxies’ surprising brightness is that it was driven not by stars, but massive black holes at their hearts.

From Science Magazine

Long-term brightness measurements since then suggest the northern hemisphere of Uranus, now emerging into sunlight, is brighter than the southern hemisphere, which Voyager 2 observed when it flew by in 1986.

From New York Times