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Definition of Luminosities
1. luminosity [n] - See also: luminosity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Luminosities
Literary usage of Luminosities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Researches in Colour Vision and the Trichromatic Theory by William de Wiveleslie Abney (1913)
"When converted into luminosities, and the luminosities into the ... By making
the patches equally bright, the relative luminosities of the pigments compared ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"For them the luminosities of the colours may be slightly or even markedly different.
But I believe that if the luminosities be determined on their scale it ..."
3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1892)
"I may remark that a little further than C towards the extreme red, the extinction
is the same for every ray when equal luminosities are used. ..."
4. A Text-book of Physics: Including a Collection of Examples and Questions by William Watson (1920)
"By making this comparison all along the spectrum, and plotting the luminosities
obtained as ordinates, Abney has obtained the curve shown in Fig. 384. ..."
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