radiance
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪdi.əns/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun[edit]
radiance (countable and uncountable, plural radiances)
- The quality or state of being radiant; shining, bright or splendid.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:
- Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned.
- 1998, “Hard to Get”, performed by Rich Mullins:
- You who live in radiance
hear the prayers of those of us who live in skin
- (physics) The flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a source.
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the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid
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the flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a source
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