It was amazing how much luminosity the moon had after the eclipse was over. From LearnThat.org.
Its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Polaris fluctuates in its short-term luminosity as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
The rods detect motion — changes in luminosity — better than do the cones. From Wordnik.com. [Double Words Optical Illusion – Ambigram] Reference
How could the observer call the luminosity thus produced?. From Wordnik.com. [Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency] Reference
As I dozed, the music brought up before my imagination a kind of luminosity, with transparent dream-shapes. From Wordnik.com. [Childhood] Reference
Set the blend mode of your pattern overlay to 'luminosity'. From Wordnik.com. [Pixel2Life.com: Latest 15 Tutorials] Reference
Typical Supernova (when a galaxy explodes) 42Total "luminosity" of the Milky Way Galaxy. From Wordnik.com. [AllDeaf.com] Reference
A kind of luminosity, with transparent dream-shapes. From Wordnik.com. [Childhood] Reference
Shutter speed: 2s (condition of ligth "luminosity"). From Wordnik.com. [Esato discussion forum] Reference
Rama most clearly reflects my strand of luminosity. From Wordnik.com. [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference
It's an easy way to create all-over luminosity when you want to dazzle. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon Perdis: Glitz Tricks: How to Make Glitter Work] Reference
And now a faint luminosity was beginning to penetrate that infernal darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
The insect itself is a dull-looking little creature, apart from its luminosity. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
The surface strata become heated, the luminosity of the star increases rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
This organism is quite distinct from that causing the luminosity of marine fish. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Previously bright stars were dimmed by the brilliancy of his superior luminosity. From Wordnik.com. [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference
One impact triggered a fireball whose infrared luminosity outshone the planet below. From Wordnik.com. [Good Show, By Jove] Reference
The area of the head seemed to irradiate its own luminosity, as if coming from within. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation that Pissed-Off God] Reference
Its luminosity increases from the circumference to the centre, where there can be seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
American Museum of Natural History: specialized organs of luminosity upon these models. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
It had always been a difficult question what caused the extraordinary luminosity of Aristarchus. From Wordnik.com. [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference
Castor is doubtless a more massive orb than our Sun, and possesses a higher degree of luminosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Early in 1910, a far more important comet than the anæmic luminosity said to be Halley's, appeared. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
September, 1898, there was a story in a New York newspaper, of lightning -- or an appearance of luminosity?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
It has in truth a lustrous luminosity not often to be met with, added to a total absence of rankness or harshness. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Acetylene burns with a very hot flame, the luminosity of which is seriously decreased if the temperature is lowered. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
The shed exudes precisely the desired Zen-like luminosity, pushing aside the creepy blackness at the edge of the forest. From Wordnik.com. [Outer Sanctum: Why we love to step outside the box to think inside the shed] Reference
The twilight had settled into a night that was moonless, but had that luminosity often seen on clear nights in late autumn. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
Molisch have shown that the luminosity of ordinary butcher's meat under appropriate conditions is quite a common occurrence. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Bunsen 214 conditions for 213 hydrogen 34 luminosity 216 oxidizing 214 oxyhydrogen 37 reactions 296 reducing 214 structure 214. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Now, as they drew near to the enormous planet, it did indeed seem that there was a sinister quality in its shifting luminosity. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures of Vibration] Reference
The united mass of the system is about one-half that of the Sun, and in point of luminosity they are much inferior to that orb. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Now, it is common to say, merely, in explanation of this luminosity, that the gas highly heated in combustion is self-incandescent. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
If increases in solar luminosity were the main cause of the warming climate, then the troposphere and stratosphere should warm together. From Wordnik.com. [Midterm candidates embrace climate denialism] Reference
It consists of several distinct cones, one within the other, the boundary between them being marked by differences of color or luminosity. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
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