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
This result suggests a relationship between X-ray luminosity and rotation velocity, and that the accretion system changed during the faint phase.
From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2025
“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
The Guardian's three star review said his "words glitter with feeling" and added that he "singularly shines, his luminosity putting the others slightly in the shade".
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025
The sun disappears completely beyond the horizon, and the remaining luminosity shifts from dusk to twilight.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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