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Recent Examples of luminance To do a little more unpacking, the peak contrast ratio indicates the difference in luminance between the brightest white and the darkest black that a monitor can produce. PC Magazine, 13 July 2025 About 30 of those hours were dedicated to gathering luminance data, with the remaining time split between red, green, blue and hydrogen-alpha filter exposures. Anthony Wood, Space.com, 15 May 2025 The contrast ratio indicates the difference in luminance between the brightest white and the darkest black that a monitor can produce. PCMAG, 18 Mar. 2025 All of these parameters—luminance (brightness), chrominance (color), frame rate, and even laser-pulse rate—will be independently adjustable on future movie projectors. IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2014 See All Example Sentences for luminance
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Noun
  • The six-inch, glare-free display makes reading easier on the eyes and includes a dark mode for nighttime reading.
    Christopher Murray may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Car traffic, engine noise and the glare of the headlights eventually dissuaded it from crossing the asphalt barrier.
    Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Furthermore, the constellation brightness would drown out faint celestial objects and limit astronomical observations.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Of course, the film is most notable for — spoiler — Roberts’s death at the end, and her palpable absence in the final scenes speaks to the brightness of her presence in the movie’s earlier parts.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Those features then show up at late times, imprinted in the Big Bang’s leftover glow (the cosmic microwave background, or CMB), as well as in the large-scale clustering of galaxies.
    Big Think, Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The streets are blocked off to outside traffic, which gives those fall Saturdays a nostalgic glow.
    Austin Meek, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So, astronomers have come up with a compromise regarding the geometry of the sun's illumination angle on Venus' disk versus its distance from Earth to determine the time of Venus' greatest brilliancy.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Family circles will have wrapped themselves in the holy pleasures of the great occasion, and everywhere the grand old holiday will have been introduced with all the majesty and brilliancy which clings around the hallowed name of Christmas.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • My reflection is tall, perhaps rather like an arrow, my blond hair gleams.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Then buff the steel with a dry cloth, wiping in the same direction as the metal's grain to bring back that gleam.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • From Spike Lee’s School Daze to the rhythmic brilliance of Drumline and the intensity of Burning Sands, these stories highlight the laughter, love, and lessons that make college life unforgettable.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Thailand is brimming with exceptional storytellers and untapped creative brilliance.
    Sara Merican, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With a permanent glint in his eye, Philip was the rock that kept Queen Elizabeth smiling.
    Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Tiny fossils hint at when birds began making their mind-blowing journey to the Arctic to breed Golden autumn sunlight glints through the sedges and shrubs of the tundra in northern Alaska.
    Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At last, a bit of fizz and lightness, a sliver of dawn at the end of a velvet night.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Steel was used for the house’s structure, for its recyclability but also for lightness.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 11 Oct. 2025

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“Luminance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/luminance. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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