Usually means: Measure of brightness emitted, perceived.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. luminance: Merriam-Webster
  2. luminance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. luminance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. luminance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. luminance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Luminance, luminance: Wordnik
  7. luminance: Wiktionary
  8. luminance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. luminance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. luminance: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. luminance: Dictionary.com
  12. Luminance (disambiguation), Luminance (relative), Luminance (video), Luminance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. luminance: Rhymezone
  14. luminance: FreeDictionary.org
  15. luminance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. luminance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Luminance: Multimedia Glossary
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. luminance: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. luminance: CCI Computer
  3. luminance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. luminance: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Luminance: Visionary
  4. luminance: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)
  2. Luminance: Extragalactic Astronomy

Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. luminance: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Luminance: Bay Area Video Preservation
  4. luminance: Lighting Design Glossary
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  7. Luminance: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  8. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  9. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  10. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  11. luminance: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

Definitions from Wiktionary (luminance)

noun:  The quality of being luminous.
noun:  The amount of light that passes through, is emitted, or is reflected from a particular area, and falls within a given solid angle.
noun:  (optics) The luminous flux emitted in a given direction divided by the product of the projected area of the source element perpendicular to the direction and the solid angle containing that direction (i.e. luminous intensity divided by unit area), measured in stilbs or apostilbs.

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