luminance
Meaning of luminance
noun
the intensity of light emitted from a surface per unit area in a given direction.
late 19th century (as a general term meaning ‘light, brightness’): from Latin luminant- ‘illuminating’ (from the verb luminare ) + -ance.
Information about luminance
- It is a name.
- The plural form of luminance is: luminances.
- Languages in which luminance is used:
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Hyphenation of luminance
lu-mi-nance
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- luminance is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
luminance synonyms
Meaning luminosity:
luminosity, brightness, luminousness, light
Translation of luminance
- Italian: luminosità
- Spanish: luminancia
- French: luminance
Words that rhyme with luminance
ance, saance, absorbance, bobance, disturbance, indisturbance, nondisturbance, perturbance, predisturbance, reprobance, undisturbance, impeccance, insignificance, nonsignificance, omnisignificance, presignificance, scance, signficance, significance, vacance, Sundance, abidance, abondance, abundance, accordance, adance, aidance, appendance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, biddance, breakdance, clogdance, concordance, condordance, contradance, contredance, counterdance, dance, dependance, descendance, disaccordance, discordance, disregardance, exceedance, exundance, forbiddance, foreguidance, guidance