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brightness Definition

bright·ness (-nis)

noun

  1. the quality or condition of being bright
  2. the luminous aspect of a color (as distinct from its hue) by which it is regarded as approaching the maximum luminance of pure white or the lack of luminance of pure black

brightness Synonyms

brightness

n.

shine, luster, illumination; see light 1.

brightness Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • lamp: The sensational brightness of these energy-saving lamps makes all other ESL reflectors look outmoded.
  • bulb: The brightness of these bulbs depends on the number of watts they have.
  • star: A dusty envelope made the apparent brightness of the star to fade below the naked eye visibility.
  • sun: Breathe in the crisp brightness of sun on snow.

Converse of object

  • adjust: For example, you may wish to adjust brightness, contrast, or color, within selected areas.
  • tweak: It's worth noting that more can be done to tweak brightness using external programs - ones that are popular for bona fide reasons.
  • perceive: But the perceived brightness of an object is a function of the receiver.
  • lower: Dimmer: a switch or dial designed to raise or lower the brightness of a light fixture.

Adjective modifier

  • adjustable: Monitor Does the screen have easily adjustable brightness and contrast controls?
  • intrinsic: The period of the pulsation pattern is directly related to the star's intrinsic brightness.
  • stellar: This will keep stellar brightness near normal, with some minor color shift.
  • apparent: A dusty envelope made the apparent brightness of the star to fade below the naked eye visibility.
  • observed: Students will understand how a binary star system's orbit can cause changes in the observed brightness of the system.
  • maximum: Things I like: The gorgeous screens, play them at maximum brightness for maximum effect!

Modifies a noun

  • adjustment: Brightness adjustment is used to lighten dark photographs or darken bright ones.

Noun used with modifier

  • cd/m2: It features an impressive 8ms response time, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 550 cd/m2 brightness and is HD Ready with HDCP compliant HDMI connections.
  • lumen: Using two lamps, two color wheels and dual illumination channeling, the F3 achieves up to 5500 ANSI lumens brightness on screen.
  • surface: For uniform surface brightness sources, an aperture with an area of 1 square arcsec is used.
  • sky: If the exposure times, atmospheric transparency or sky brightness have varied, then data must be ` normalized ' before combination.
  • X-ray: The choice of EPIC operation mode depends primarily on the target's X-ray brightness.
brightness Quotes

God, whoat sundry times and indiversmannersspake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Then washed in the brightness of this vision, I saw how in its radiance would grow and be nourished and suddenly burst into terrible and splendid bloom the blood-red flower of revolution.

—Randall, Dudley

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

What I had not foreseen Was the gradual day Weakening the will Leaking the brightness away

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

But two miles more and then we rest! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the brightness of the west Sit then, awhile, here in this wood So total is the solitude, We safely may delay.

—Bronte«  , Charlotte

Shall not the day of the L be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

—Bible (Old Testament)

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

—Anaxagoras

A stately palace built of square'  d brick, Which cunningly was without mortar laid, Whose walls were high, but nothing strong, nor thick, And golden foil all over them displayed, That purest sky with brightness they dismayed.

—Spenser, Edmund

O how fall'n! how changed From him, who in the happy realms of light Clothed with transcendent brightness didst outshine Myriads though bright.

—Milton,John