Usually means: Amount of light an object emits.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. luminosity: Merriam-Webster
  2. luminosity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. luminosity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. luminosity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. luminosity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Luminosity, luminosity: Wordnik
  7. luminosity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. luminosity: Wiktionary
  9. luminosity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. luminosity: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. luminosity: Dictionary.com
  12. Luminosity (astronomy), Luminosity (disambiguation), Luminosity (performance art), Luminosity (scattering theory), Luminosity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Luminosity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. luminosity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. luminosity: Rhymezone
  16. Luminosity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. luminosity: FreeDictionary.org
  18. luminosity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. luminosity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. luminosity: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. luminosity: Graphic Design Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. luminosity: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. luminosity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. luminosity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. luminosity: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Luminosity: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Luminosity: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Luminosity: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Luminosity: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. JPL Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See luminosities as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (luminosity)

noun:  (uncountable) the state of being luminous, or a luminous object; brilliance or radiance
noun:  (physics) the ratio of luminous flux to radiant flux at the same wavelength; the luminosity factor
noun:  (astronomy) The rate at which a star radiates energy in all directions.

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