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Meaning brightness meaning

What does brightness mean?

brightness

the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty (= luminosity, light) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun

Synonyms brightness synonyms

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Examples brightness examples

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Simple sentences

He flipped the switch and threw the room into brightness.
The brightness of the sky showed that the storm had passed.
The thickness of Saturn's rings ranges from 10 to 100 meters and the rings vary in brightness.

Movie subtitles

Because, from trillions of kilometres away, these small planets get lost in the blinding glare of their star's brightness.
The brightness of that searchlight represents the extreme luminosity of stars and I'm gonna use this tiny marble to represent the planet.
One spot of brightness on you, and you'd still be that.
Are you top of their brightness, their world.
And that sudden brightness coming, do you see it, Nazarius?
Brightness 3.2 lux.
Some brightness, or light?
When they speak, there is brightness.
Oh it's just a knack you know, anytime you want a bit of brightness in your life, come to Pol!
No. But brightness has never been encouraged amongst slaves.
The brightness dims.
In addition to Eratosthenes, there was the astronomer Hipparchus who mapped the constellation and established the brightness of the stars.
I'll brighten with your brightness.
The Ark of brightness - redeem us.
They contain nothing more than columns of numbers, indicating the positions and brightness of all stars on the plates.
And you were the song of the birds and the warm brightness of the morning.
You were all the brightness and the sweet and the bitter.
But some Englishmen watch the sun on the waves, and dream of a future that will shine on England with the brightness of a hundred suns.
All brightness, and butterflies are a wonder to behold.
Latmon goes up in the brightness, and Shiva calls!
Your shining brightness.
Oh incomparable Sultan, whose brightness is eclipsing moon and sun and fiery meteors, and all the world's emperors!
The brightness of the Vulcan sun has caused the development of an inner eyelid, which acts as a shield against high-intensity light.
I'm seriously blinded by her brightness.
You bring brightness into our house, my son, but the world needs you.
The ancient Greeks explained that diffuse band of brightness in the night sky as the milk of the goddess Hera squirted from her breast across the heavens.
Genius flourished here. In addition to Eratosthenes, there was the astronomer Hipparchus who mapped the constellation and established the brightness of the stars.
You'll see, that brightness and inteligence, you'll see.
There was the scandal of her father that slight inherited stain upon her brightness that seemed deepened by something in her own way of life. A waywardness and willfulness, a less disciplined habit than most of her contemporaries.

News and current affairs

The weaker the civilian leadership has become, the more China has been inclined to discard Deng Xiaoping's dictum tao guang yang hui (hide brightness, nourish obscurity).

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