brightness

[ brahyt-nis ]
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noun
  1. the quality of being bright.

  2. Optics. the luminance of a body, apart from its hue or saturation, that an observer uses to determine the comparative luminance of another body. Pure white has the maximum brightness, and pure black the minimum brightness.

Origin of brightness

1
before 950; Middle English brihtnes,Old English beorhtnes.See bright, -ness

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British Dictionary definitions for brightness

brightness

/ (ˈbraɪtnɪs) /


noun
  1. the condition of being bright

  2. physics a former name for luminosity (def. 4)

  1. psychol the experienced intensity of light

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