How to Use luminance in a Sentence

luminance

noun
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  • Researchers asked subjects if the probe appeared in the top or bottom half of the luminance gratings.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2022
  • So Feinberg's team did it with varying amounts of light—with luminance.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Every room in his body flooded with the aquatic luminance of night.
    — Muriel Leung Victoria Chang, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • For example, yellow and brown are the same hue but differ in luminance.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Scientists can calculate the wavelength of the light and the luminance, or brightness, of a color.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
  • In her work, she’s found that with the exact same level of physical luminance, a corner is going to look brighter than a straight edge or the soft curve of a circle.
    — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2020
  • The blue dot on the top of the cube and the one on the darker side are exactly the same hue, reflecting light with identical intensity, or luminance.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • What leaps out at any of the Stradivari recitals, and Wednesday was no exception, is the silvery glow of the Strad sound, a luminance that carries from the slightest touch of the bow to the most robust playing.
    — Joe Banno, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Opt for soft white bulbs with a low color temperature and luminance.
    — Gina Mayfield, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Even though these hues all differed by the same amount of luminance, the brain processed the pair of warm colors as being much more different from one another, compared to the two blues.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Nit panels: This is a measurement of light output, or luminance.
    — Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Here, Andreo has draped the color data onto the more detailed luminance image.
    — Alexis Madrigal, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2009
  • In the behavioral study, researchers showed subjects briefly two light patterns made up of alternating strips of black and white lines, called luminance gratings.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2022
  • To qualify as an International Dark Sky Sanctuary, the luminance of the night sky must have an average of 21.5 on the sky quality scale.
    — Jamie Carter, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2021
  • But in reality, nature-loving volunteers in the U.S. contribute a great deal to on-the-ground research, from tracking sea turtles to monitoring the luminance of the night sky.
    — Kristi Odom, National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Telescopes pointed at the giant were able to determine that—rather than a tidy, uniform drop in luminance—Betelgeuse's dimming was unevenly distributed, giving the star an odd, squished shape when viewed from Earth.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Our final test with the Klein colorimeter measures the screen's contrast ratio, meaning the difference in luminance between the brightest white and darkest black that a monitor can produce.
    — PCMAG, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Without the mangroves, the bay will lose its luminance - our support will restore these precious ecosystems while also securing the local economy.
    — Angela Chan, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • Naive observers viewed a 1:1 scale image of the black-and-white patterned rug and a homogeneous gray region of equivalent luminance in a counterbalanced within-subjects design.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2012
  • In this process, called luminance, the metal absorbs energy from the explosion, something called excitation, emitting a color of light specific to that metal.
    — Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 3 July 2018
  • And micro-contrast enhances the distinction between areas that are very slightly different in their luminance values.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2016
  • With unique natural ingredients like kakadu plum, finger lime, and Tasmanian pepper leaf, these ingredients work to even skin tone and restore luminance to dull skin.
    — Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Previously, control was based exclusively on the average luminance of the entire screen.
    — John Archer, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Beyond their optical brilliance, Piccioli’s designs are distinguished by a sort of luminance of purpose.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Colors have properties like luminance, chroma and saturation, all of which affect their appearance.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Worse, something about the Freesync picture make up - luminance consistency requirements, perhaps, or a clash between the mode’s warm color temperature and the cooler natural backlight tone - causes much more noticeable backlight blooming.
    — John Archer, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • This daily-use tranexamic acid serum also contains skin-brightening niacinamide and antioxidant-rich lotus sprout extract, which conditions and plumps skin while boosting natural luminance.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The rotating snake illusion is an example of a peripheral drift induced by repeating, asymmetric luminance patterns.
    — Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
  • This helped us evaluate color accuracy, peak brightness, contrast ratios, color gamut, luminance uniformity, color uniformity, and more with hard data instead of personal opinions.
    — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2019

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