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  • luminosity
    Luminosity
    Luminosity is a measurement of brightness usually denoted in Lumens.-In photometry and color imaging:In photometry, luminosity is sometimes incorrectly used to refer to luminance, which is the density of luminous intensity in a given direction...

    , a scientific term referring to different things depending on the field in which it is used
  • Luminous (story collection)
    Luminous (story collection)
    Luminous is a collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan.Luminous contains the following short stories.*Chaff - An agent is sent to kill a geneticist who is working in a druglord controlled stronghold in the jungles of Colombia, and working on important brain altering...

    , a short story collection by Greg Egan
    Greg Egan
    Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness. Other themes include genetics, simulated reality, posthumanism, mind transfer, sexuality, artificial...

  • Luminous paint
    Luminous paint
    Luminous paint or luminescent paint is paint that exhibits luminescence. In other words, it gives off visible light through fluorescence, phosphorescence, or radioluminescence.-Fluorescent paint:...

    , a sort of paint that glows in the dark
  • Luminous intensity
    Luminous intensity
    In photometry, luminous intensity is a measure of the wavelength-weighted power emitted by a light source in a particular direction per unit solid angle, based on the luminosity function, a standardized model of the sensitivity of the human eye...

  • The pronunciation of the title of the PSP video game Lumines
    Lumines
    is a Puzzle video game based on sound and light patterns. Created by game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi and his company, Q Entertainment, it was first released for the PlayStation Portable in Japan on December 12, and released in North America on March 23...