Noun : the blinding luminance of the sun. From Dictionary.com.
The "luminance" of the light slowly rises and falls. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
This kind of noise is called luminance noise. From Wordnik.com. [MacUpdate - Mac OS X] Reference
Uniform light colour and luminance of the lamps. From Wordnik.com. [11. Inspection and Repair of Lighting Installations] Reference
Itself a comet trailing luminance, the capsule fled. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
Hazy though it was, this luminance veiled most stars. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
With an increasing luminance, visibility increases, too. From Wordnik.com. [2. Elements] Reference
A pure luminance vs colour representation looks like this. From Wordnik.com. [The Two-Streams Hypothesis] Reference
There was just sufficient luminance for him not to stumble. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
Sudden change of the luminance level in the field of vision. From Wordnik.com. [2. Elements] Reference
Even the strange Venusian luminance seemed lesser than usual. From Wordnik.com. [Escape on Venus]
The thin mountain air allowed for an even brighter luminance. From Wordnik.com. [Moon View Mountain Road] Reference
Now it's going one step further by eliminating idling luminance. From Wordnik.com. [Flat-panel TVs take center stage] Reference
Edged with their luminance, her spacesuit arrowed across the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
Objectively: The size of the luminance contrast defined by formulae. From Wordnik.com. [2. Elements] Reference
Too great simultaneous local luminance differences in the field of view. From Wordnik.com. [2. Elements] Reference
The entire advertising installation should have harmonized luminance ratios. From Wordnik.com. [9. Commercial Lighting Fittings] Reference
No random, irregularly shaped glob of luminance, the light had form and shape. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
(Adams said he used the luminance of the moon to calculate the proper exposure.). From Wordnik.com. [At Auction] Reference
The luminance of the surrounding field can be increased only by much expenditure. From Wordnik.com. [2. Elements] Reference
Their constellations lost in the nacreous luminance, she was rarely sure which she saw. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
After an indefinite time, a change took place in the ruddy luminance of the astral plane. From Wordnik.com. [Conan of Cimmeria]
Local evenness - avoidance of greater differences in luminance within the field of view. From Wordnik.com. [10. Mounting of Lighting Installations] Reference
He had but the one bobbing blob of luminance to hollow out a place for himself in the dark. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
Its luminance, X-rays, was weaker than the X-ray band of all but the dimmer red dwarf stars. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
A single small moon, 100,000 kilometers from the surface, looked pale against that luminance. From Wordnik.com. [Agent Of The Terran Empire]
You could even encode the luminance information as a discrete sequence of smells, ferchrissakes. From Wordnik.com. [Carry-Over Thread] Reference
For the time being, the luminance of street lighting is approximately 1 candela per square metre. From Wordnik.com. [2. Elements] Reference
Brightest is Sirius, whose blue-white luminance casts shadows of fittings and housings across my hull. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
In the unreal luminance, his head was not grizzled, it was as white as the words which puffed from him. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
By this clearer luminance he could make out another upward slope, which must extend almost to the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
The air was a vibration of luminance, and the wavering static of the TV seemed louder and more reverberant. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
The sun still shone, slanting steeply beneath the clouds, and it gave the land a luminance that the sky had lost. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
Yet Renand-I had learned to see beauty in soft golden-hued luminance, in a thousand shy tints across eldritch landscapes. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
Flashing their light in sequence, they formed multiple lines of rainbow luminance all along the interior of the fallen sokulaa. From Wordnik.com. [Drowning World]
It was not yet dawn, but the sky had the grey luminance that came before first light, and Sharpe wanted to be at the telegraph early. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Gold]
The form that loomed before him was tall, and huge slanty eyes caught what luminance there was and gave it back as the eyes of a cat do. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
Since they were used to the painful brightness at this altitude, the soft luminance of their own home might not register on their senses. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
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