illumination
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4.1
- noun
- /ɪˌluːməˈneɪʃən/
:
iluminación
- And so the illumination of this surface is less.
- ambient illumination
- poor illumination
- levels of illumination
Now in our own world, often we have that the illumination is more or less constant of an area.
- Now in our own world, often we have that the illumination is more or less constant of an area.
- And it also made my skin super crazy, like it wasn't like a good illumination.
- The nice thing about these local binary patterns is that it is illumination invariant.
- There's the hard one for driving illumination.
- So nowadays I love to use a illumination clock.
- A lot of this comes down to the fact that unlike NZXTEVGACLCS are a lot more simplified in terms of the LE DS and the illumination and software and things like that.
Examples
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There were oil lamps for extra illumination, and a damp, unpleasant smell.
Fiction book (1993) -
The glow of smoldering cooking fires through open doorways offers minimal illumination to the squalid lives within.
Fiction book (1992) -
The primary source of illumination is the massive T.V. set in the wall opposite the bed.
Fiction book (1995) -
You can also specify the color of the illumination.
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The burn on the back of her right hand is visible in the illumination from a nearby streetlight.
Fiction book (1990) -
Cold blue evening light contrasts with warm yellow illumination being emitted from the house windows.
Academic text (1998) -
The dinosaur stood forty feet away, at the edge of the illumination from the headlamps.
Fiction book (1990) -
The room was filled with bright illumination, making it easy to read the book.
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The illumination from the streetlights helped guide us safely home at night.
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During the evening event, colorful illumination transformed the garden into a magical space.
Synonyms
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1.0
Brightness from the sun, lamps, or fire that makes things visible
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3.1
The way artificial light is placed and used in a room or on stage to create an effect
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1.0
How much light something gives or how close it looks to white
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7.3
How much light an object gives or reflects
3
8.5
The amount of light that falls on a surface
1
7.1
The brightness of a surface as seen by the eye
1
6.8
The amount of light or heat that comes from a surface in one direction
1
3.9
The amount of light you can see coming from a lamp or the sun in one direction
1
3.3
The amount of light a thing gives or reflects
1
8.9
Bright, strong light that shines from something like the sun or a diamond
1
4.3
A brightness in an image or scene that changes mood
The amount of light that falls on a surface
How bright something is because it gives or reflects light
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A way of lighting a sample under a microscope to make tiny things look bright against a dark background
- Specialized
A way to see tiny things under a microscope as bright shapes on a dark background
- Specialized
A measure of how much light falls on a surface, for example the lux
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
illumination = illuminate (transparent) = illuminate + ation
This is the concrete physical sense 'the amount of light'; it is a straightforward nominalization of the verb 'to illuminate'.
Etymology
Illumination comes from Latin lumin ('light'). That is why the word is used for the amount of 'light' in a place and how well you can see.