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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for luminance
Noun
  • The overwhelming success of the book and the resulting media glare opened a divide between them.
    Anderson Tepper, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Mercury was part of it during August, but has since sunk back into the glare of the sun.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Users can choose between two different brightness levels and adjust the angle of the light and the solar panel for customized preferences.
    Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Govee has refined the software from previous models to improve the brightness and color accuracy, and the lights are more durable now.
    Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Lit Ghost Cloche Add a small but impactful touch of Halloween with these little ghost cloches that add an eerie glow to coffee tables, shelves, and countertops.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025
  • For the Grad School Queens and Teachers Whether she’s headed back to school for her master’s or ruling the classroom, the women returning to academia deserve a beauty routine that supports her grind without sacrificing her glow.
    Larry Stansbury, Essence, 5 Sep. 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
  • There is something feral in the onrush of Marlowe’s verse, with the gleam of bared teeth daring us to laugh.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With piercing rumbles, flickering gleams and heaps of fan interaction, Cain's concert felt more like an interactive theatrical experience.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Young has shown true flashes of brilliance.
    Mike Kaye September 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Eternal Aura reflects the brilliance of Black creativity that cannot be dimmed, evolving through every drape, print, and body, a glow that endures across generations.
    Karissa Mitchell, Essence, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The glint and thrum of Y2K aesthetics—as contrasted with the droning conservatism of the white-collar office—read as anticipatory rather than melancholic, looking toward a future liberated from systems of old.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Newman plays Reggie with a permanently mischievous glint in his eye and a schemer’s grin.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The unique construction of the YH-C3000 strikes a balance between lightness, rigidity and internal damping.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Olga Tokarczuk also has this lightness to her.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Luminance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/luminance. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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