radiance

English

Etymology

From Latin radiare + -ance

Noun

Wikipedia radiance (countable and uncountable; plural radiances)

1. the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid

   Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned. — Milton.

2. (physics) the flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a source

Translations

the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid

• Armenian: փայլ (hy) (p’ayl)
• Finnish: säteily, säteilevyys
• Polish: blask (pl) m

• Romanian: strălucire (ro) f, lucire (ro) f, iradiere (ro) f
• Russian: сияние (ru) (sijanije) n, блеск (ru) (blesk) m

the flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a source

• Finnish: radianssi, säteilytiheys
• Polish: radiancja (pl) f

• Romanian: radianță (ro) f, emitanță (ro) f
• Russian: излучение (ru) (izlučenije) n