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Luminance

The word luminance, a synonym for luminosity, means "the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light".


Luminance is the term used for that part of an analog television signal that encodes brightness information.

See also chrominance, gamma correction


Luminance is also a technical term in photometry.



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