WordNet
n. luminous intensity measured in candelas [syn: candlepower]
Wikipedia
Several measures of light are commonly known as intensity:
- Radiant intensity, a radiometric quantity measured in watts per steradian (W/sr)
- Luminous intensity, a photometric quantity measured in lumens per steradian (lm/sr), or candela (cd)
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Irradiance, a radiometric quantity, measured in watts per meter squared (W/m)
- Intensity (physics), the name for irradiance used in other branches of physics (W/m)
- Radiance, commonly called "intensity" in astronomy and astrophysics (W·sr·m)
Usage examples of "light intensity".
I had shifted my position so that the light from the port behind me cast my shadow over the surface, and, a neurological change having been triggered by the shift in light intensity, some of the barnacles in the shadow were opening their plates and probing the vacuum with stubby gray tongues, trying to feed.
A fly without moving can be conscious of changes in light intensity at almost any angle, which is why it is so difficult to catch one by surprise while bringing it the gift of a flyswatter.
His eyes were still unaccustomed to abrupt shifts in light intensity.
It was Ole Hansen, some echo of the arc-light intensity from his original blue eyes somehow burning through the wide-set dark gaze of his new sleeve.
One should be able to recognize at eighteen miles what kind of an object with variable light intensity was drifting in space.
The modern ones use a high speed, reversible, light intensity limiting effect.
Gravity, atmosphere, diurnal cycle, light intensity, and temperature range closely matched those of the colonizing planet.
At this level, a spellfire wielder also gains the ability to alter the light intensity of spellfire from almost invisible (87% undetectable in darkness and 97% undetectable under average sunlit conditions) to blinding (equal to a blindness spell-including allowing a saving throw vs.