[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

brightness \bright"ness\, n. as. beorhines. see bright.
   1. the quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster;
      brilliancy; clearness.
      1913 webster

            a sudden brightness in his face appear. --crabbe.
      1913 webster

   2. acuteness of the faculties; sharpness 9wit.
      1913 webster

            the brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him.
                                                  --prior.
      1913 webster

   syn: splendor; luster; radiance; resplendence; brilliancy;
        effulgence; glory; clearness.
        1913 webster
see also:
bright 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

brightness
     n 1: the location of a visual perception along the black-to-white
          continuum ant: dullness
     2: intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty syn: cleverness,
         smartness
     3: the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light;
        "its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun"
        syn: luminosity, brightness level, luminance, luminousness,
         light
see also:
dullness cleverness smartness luminosity brightness level luminance 
luminousness light 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

158 moby thesaurus words for "brightness":
   munsell chroma, technicolor, acuity, acuteness, adroitness,
   agility, alertness, aptitude, aptness, attention, attentiveness,
   auspiciousness, beneficence, benevolence, benignancy, benignity,
   blare, blaze, blazing light, blinding light, blitheness,
   blithesomeness, braininess, bright color, bright light,
   bright side, brilliance, brilliancy, brilliant light,
   burst of light, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, cheery vein,
   chroma, chromatic color, chromaticity, clear thinking, cleverness,
   color, color quality, colorfulness, colorimetric quality,
   cool color, dazzling light, dexterity, docility, educability,
   effulgence, esprit, eupeptic mien, facility, fair weather,
   favorableness, flair, flamboyance, flood of light, fortunateness,
   fulgor, gaiety, geniality, genius, giftedness, gifts, gladness,
   gladsomeness, glamour, glare, glaring light, gloriousness, glory,
   good auspices, good cheer, good omen, gorgeousness, happiness,
   heavenliness, hopefulness, hue, impressionability, intelligence,
   intensity, keen-wittedness, keenness, lightness, luckiness, luster,
   malleability, mental alertness, mercurial mind, moldability,
   motivation, native cleverness, neutral color, nimble mind,
   nimble-wittedness, nimbleness, nous, optimism, plasticity,
   pleasantness, pliability, promptitude, promptness, propitiousness,
   prosperousness, punctuality, pure color, purity, quick parts,
   quick thinking, quick wit, quick-wittedness, quickness, radiance,
   radiancy, radiant splendor, ravishingness, readiness, ready wit,
   receptivity, refulgence, refulgency, resplendence, resplendency,
   richness, rosy expectation, sanguine humor, sanguineness,
   saturation, savvy, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, sleeplessness,
   smartness, smarts, splendidness, splendor, splendorousness,
   splendrousness, sprightly wit, streaming light, sublimity,
   sunniness, sunny side, susceptibility, talent, teachability,
   teachableness, tint, tone, trainableness, value, vividness,
   wakefulness, warm color, willingness, winsomeness

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

brightness
     
         or "tone", "luminance", "value", "luminosity",
        "lightness" the coordinate in the hsb colour model that
        determines the total amount of light in the colour.  zero
        brightness is black and 100 is white, intermediate values are
        "light" or "dark" colours.
     
        the other coordinates are hue and saturation.
     
        1999-07-05
     
     
see also:
hsb colour model hue saturation 

Brightness >> B Words
Brightness, definition of term: Brightness
brightness_pag1.html

Low Surface Brightness Galaxy Gallery
...In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently.....The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color.....LSB disk galaxies have similar structure as high surface brightness galaxies; that is, the..
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/sb2.html, score=100, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 2:19 am

Combative and Petty

http://www.brightnessfalls.com/, score=95, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 9:17 am

Home

http://www.ofdarkbrightness.myweb.nl/, score=85, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 8:03 pm

Proper Gamma (Brightness) for Cross Platform WWW Images
...Making a web image with the right amount of brightness, means giving it the average amount.....Making a web image with the right amount of brightness, means giving it the average amount.....To make a GIF or JPEG image with proper brightness for the WWW (where many types of..
http://www.cgsd.com/papers/gamma.web.html, score=62, date indexed=March 27, 2005, 5:17 pm

...Galaxies are diffuse images which must be detected against a background of finite.....Low surface brightness galaxies are ones in which the contrast with respect to the.....brightness is low, as such they are difficult to discover and therefore are easily missed..
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/paper/lsb.txt, score=62, date indexed=March 29, 2005, 12:05 am

Brightness.pl | Oficjalna Strona Zespołu
...Jak zapewne wszyscy zauważyli strona grupy Brightness doczekała się nowej odsłony.....aktywacja@brightness.pl z informacj±, że się wpisali¶cie i chcecie aktywować konto, albo.....29 · by Brightness.. Wła¶nie dodali¶my galerie z Andrzejkowego koncertu w klubie QvoVadis..
http://www.brightness.pl/, score=56, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 7:53 am

Galaxy Gallery Page III
...Galaxies are diffuse objects which are imaged against a background of finite brightness.....In this page we present several examples of these newly discovered Low Surface Brightness.....Malin 1 is an excellent example of a very Low Surface Brightness Spiral Galaxy. This..
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/sb.html, score=52, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 3:39 am

Brightness - Revision & Řkonomistyring
...Brightness - Revision & Řkonomistyring....Denne Web-side bruger rammer, og din browser..
http://www.brightness.dk/, score=48, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 10:14 pm

sane-devel: Automatic Brightness and Contrast correction?
...Automatic Brightness and Contrast correction?" Hi, Does any one know how to achieve.....Automatic Brightness and Contrast correction? Hĺkan Kvarnström (Hakan.K.Kvarnstrom@telia.....values for brightness and contrast. The problem is that it requires.. me to scan the same..
http://www.sane-project.org/old-archive/1999-03/0047.html, score=47, date indexed=February 21, 2005, 8:20 am

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