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LUMINANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does luminance mean? 

LUMINANCE (noun)
  The noun LUMINANCE has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting lightplay

  Familiarity information: LUMINANCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LUMINANCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

brightness; brightness level; light; luminance; luminosity; luminousness

Context example:

its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun

Hypernyms ("luminance" is a kind of...):

physical property (any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions)

Attribute:

bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)

dull (emitting or reflecting very little light)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "luminance"):

illuminance; illumination (the luminous flux incident on a unit area)

incandescence (light from heat)

glow; luminescence (light from nonthermal sources)


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