luminosity
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“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
The most striking feature of the renovated cathedral is the luminosity of the stonework.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024
Out of a helicopter glided something that was not machine, not animal, not dead, not alive, glowing with a pale green luminosity.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
Vocabulary lists containing luminosity
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