What's the difference between brilliance and luminosity?

Brilliance


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
  • (2) It came in a mix of joy and sorrow and brilliance under pressure, with one of the most remarkable things you will ever see on a basketball court in the biggest moment.
  • (3) For every drop shot that was loose, lazy and tossed away a point, there was another that smacked of insouciant brilliance.
  • (4) As any biography will also tell you, for all his shape-shifting brilliance, Bowie is a Royal Variety Performance vaudevillian at heart.
  • (5) As there is no surer sign of things going hideously wrong than Duncan Smith trumpeting his brilliance, Reeves felt it as well to probe a little deeper.
  • (6) When Ray Moore – now the former chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, home of the eponymous tournament – said the ladies should get down on their knees to give thanks for the brilliance of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal because otherwise no one would pay any attention to female tennis players at all, he was talking the kind of gibberish usually heard from people who haven’t thought about the subject at all.
  • (7) Fulham 0-3 Arsenal (Podolski) Sheer brilliance from Podolski.
  • (8) For these children, giftedness itself brings problems, sometimes referred to as "the handicap of brilliance".
  • (9) An era of turbulence, back-stabbing, bravery and brilliance, I knew I wanted it to form the basis for a conspiracy thread in the story.
  • (10) Hart’s brilliance earned him a long embrace at the final whistle from Luis Suárez and the Uruguayan’s face was one of wonder.
  • (11) It's become a terrible cliché to invoke the brilliance of AMC's Mad Men .
  • (12) That was Buffon’s one mistake of a night when there were other moments to remind us of his enduring brilliance.
  • (13) Photograph: Getty Images Delord has no criticisms of anyone's beliefs about UFOs, or otherwise, "It's a magnificent mountain and people say they do see things – brilliance, lights, not necessarily extraterrestrials," though he hopes aliens do exist somewhere in the universe.
  • (14) Blow us.” She topped off this feat of Twitter brilliance with no less than an “OK” sign emoji.
  • (15) Circulatory velocity by the intensity and brilliance of colours.
  • (16) Abbott could understand their fair questions and they could then amplify his brilliance and refreshing insight, a nourishing transaction.
  • (17) Italy At least England know what to expect from the Azzurri : a masterclass in the retention of possession, orchestrated by Andrea Pirlo in his quarterback role; a stingy defence most likely forged at Juventus; and a maverick forward capable of brilliance and lunacy in equal measures.
  • (18) But if you’re willing to endure for the occasional flash of brilliance, have at it.
  • (19) There were crumbs of brilliance for fans on luvvies' day (nice to see Sir Bruce Forsyth so attentive, nice), most of them from the racket of the defending champion.
  • (20) The fourth in particular, an overhead volley from an almost implausible angle and distance, was the kind of rare brilliance that could be associated with only an elite band of footballers.

Luminosity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being luminous; luminousness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The automated CellSoft semen analyzer identifies human spermatozoa on the basis of user-defined values for cell size and luminosity.
  • (2) In dim luminosity, the binocular system functioned better than the monocular system.
  • (3) In luminosity-type (H1) horizontal cells, the reversal potential of light responses was estimated at about 0 mV.
  • (4) In the latter the shift from a low to high light exposure increased NE excretion; in contrast, in migraineurs exposure to high luminosity resulted in a depression of NE excretion and an augmentation of E excretion.
  • (5) Test colors (14 interference filters, 4 Wratten filters, and white) were matched for human photopic luminosity and presented at luminance levels sufficient to induce vigorous responding from most cells.
  • (6) This level was the same as observed in luminosity-type and biphasic chromaticity-type cells, suggesting that the ionic mechanisms of synaptic transmission are common among horizontal cell types.
  • (7) In this analysis, we use the DMSP-OLS Stable Lights Dataset covering 1992-2012 to measure changes in luminosity in North Korea over time.
  • (8) These observations suggest a role of a GABAergic mechanism in the generation and transmission of luminosity responses in the trout pineal organ.
  • (9) Luminosity curves measured through a filter which artificially replaces the missing macular pigment is identical to the deuteranopic (Type II) curve.
  • (10) Extracellular Cl- activity and intracellular Cl- activities of luminosity and biphasic-chromaticity type horizontal cells were measured in freshly isolated, non-superfused roach retinae using double-barrelled Cl- -sensitive micro-electrodes.
  • (11) The effect of the shift from a low to a high luminosity of the environment on the urinary excretion of norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine (E) was studied in migraineurs (26 cases) and controls (25 cases).
  • (12) Intracellular recordings from luminosity-type horizontal cells of the turtle retina were used to analyze the effects of steady and flickering background illumination on the size of their receptive fields.
  • (13) In high-Mg2+ medium, luminosity-type cone horizontal cells (L-cells) hyperpolarized and lost their photoresponses at a full membrane hyperpolarization of about -80 mV.
  • (14) A different rotation gave a photopic luminosity curve.
  • (15) In 1 subject with good visual acuity of both eyes, no optic atrophy was observed but there was impairment in the luminosity function (tested with white test object on white background) of the peripheral visual field.
  • (16) In electrophysiological experiments involving intracellular recording from horizontal cells in the isolated retina of the roach, light adaptation of the retina has been shown to result in potentiation both of (1) the depolarizing component of biphasic chromaticity type S-potentials, and (2) the temporal frequency transfer functions of photopic luminosity type horizontal cells.
  • (17) The mechanism causing such a change of test responses was studied in the luminosity-type cone horizontal cells.
  • (18) The broad background effect further indicates that all photoreceptors have an input and suggests that a luminosity cell, such as the internal horizontal cell, may be involved.
  • (19) We have constructed a computer model that attempts to predict which pairs of rhodopsins are most suitable for making various luminosity and chromaticity discriminations in green coastal water.
  • (20) Other biological aspects should be analysed in relation to luminosity.