Look up: radiance

1. radiance
   [n] - an attractive combination of good health and happiness 2. [n] - the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface 3. [n] - the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
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2. radiance
   the quotient of the radiant flux leaving,arriving at,or passing through an element of surface at this point and which is propagated in directions defined by an elementary cone containing the given direction,by the product of the solid angle of the cone and the area of the orthogonal projection of th...
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3. Radiance
   Ra'di·ance (- a ns), Ra'di*an*cy (- a n*sȳ) noun The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun. « Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned.»...
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4. radiance
   radiancy noun the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
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5. radiance
   glow 1 glowing noun the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
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6. radiance
   noun an attractive combination of good health and happiness; `the radiance of her countenance`
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7. Radiance
   • (n.) Alt. of Radiancy
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8. radiance
   the radiant power in a given direction and at a given point of a real or hypothetical surface transmitted by an elementary beam passing through the given point and propagating in the solid angle containing the given direction divided by the product of the value of this solid angle, the area of secti...
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9. radiance
   quantity defined by the formula where dF_e is the radiant flux transmitted by an elementary beam passing through the given point and propagating in the solid angle dO containing the given direction; dA is the area of a section of that beam containing the given point; ? is the angle between the normal to that se...
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10. Radiance
    `Radiance` and `spectral radiance` are radiometric measures that describe the amount of light that passes through or is emitted from a particular area, and falls within a given solid angle in a specified direction. They are used to characterize both emission from diffuse sources and reflection from ...
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11. Radiance
    (software) `Radiance` is a suite of tools for performing lighting simulation originally written by Greg Ward. It includes a renderer as well as many other tools for measuring the simulated light levels. It uses ray tracing to perform all lighting calculations, accelerated by the use of...
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12. Radiance
    (play) ` Radiance ` is a play by Australian author and playwright Louis Nowra. The play focuses on three Aboriginal half-sisters, who have gone their separate ways in life, and are reunited when they arrive for their mother`s funeral service. Radiance has been written both as a ...
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13. Radiance
    (film) `Radiance` is a 1998 Australian title=Radiance (1998)-->--> It is the first feature film by Indigenous Australians|Aboriginal director Rachel Perkins about three indigenous sisters who reunite for their mother`s funeral.<ref name=IMDB/> The film is based on the play written b...
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