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00278551-a:
emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
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04954534-n:
an appearance of reflected light
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05018103-n:
the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
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00278551-a:
emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
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00280463-a:
radiating or as if radiating light
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00503945-r:
in a manner that is pleasing to the senses
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00645622-n:
a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light; specimens appear luminous against a dark background
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01003272-n:
measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity)
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01451863-n:
fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico
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02168427-n:
the luminous larva or wingless grub-like female of a firefly
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02176747-n:
tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots
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02543255-n:
small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night
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03926876-n:
measuring instrument for measuring the luminous intensity of a source by comparing it (visually or photoelectrically) with a standard source
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05018103-n:
the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
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05100751-n:
luminous intensity measured in candelas
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09251002-n:
(astronomy) the luminous cloud of particles surrounding the frozen nucleus of a comet; forms as the comet approaches the sun and is warmed
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09279870-n:
the luminous center of a nuclear explosion
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a luminous iridescent cloud at a high altitude that may be seen when the sun is a few degrees below the horizon
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09374493-n:
a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process
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09391386-n:
the intensely luminous surface of a star (especially the sun)
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09406368-n:
a large, old, luminous star; has a relatively low surface temperature and a diameter large relative to the sun
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09451237-n:
a star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process
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11440691-n:
one or more circles of light seen around a luminous object
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11484260-n:
an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding)
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11487533-n:
a luminous halo parallel to the horizon at the altitude of the sun; caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere
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11510411-n:
large eruptions of luminous hydrogen gas that rise thousands of kilometers above the chromosphere
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11527556-n:
a luminous tract in the sky; a reflection of sunlight from cosmic dust in the plane of the ecliptic; visible just before sunrise and just after sunset
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13578267-n:
a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela)
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13640050-n:
a measure of luminous intensity
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13641534-n:
the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin
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13641855-n:
a former international unit of luminous intensity; now replaced by the candela
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14791722-n:
a bituminous coal that burns with a luminous flame
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15108538-n:
a yellow to white crystalline fluorescent compound that occurs naturally as sphalerite or wurtzite and is used as a luminous pigment
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