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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Radiance \Ra"di*ance\ (r[=a]"d[i^]*ans), Radiancy \Ra"di*an*cy\ (r[=a]"d[i^]*an*s[y^]), n. The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun.
Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned.
--Milton.
What radiancy of glory,
What light beyond compare !
--Neale.
Syn: Luster; brilliancy; splendor; glare; glitter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid 2 (context physics English) the flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a source
WordNet
n. the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface [syn: glow, glowing]
the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light [syn: radiancy, shine, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency]
an attractive combination of good health and happiness; "the radiance of her countenance"
Wikipedia
In radiometry, radiance is the radiant flux emitted, reflected, transmitted or received by a surface, per unit solid angle per unit projected area, and spectral radiance is the radiance of a surface per unit frequency or wavelength, depending on whether the spectrum is taken as a function of frequency or of wavelength. These are directional quantities. The SI unit of radiance is the watt per steradian per square metre , while that of spectral radiance in frequency is the watt per steradian per square metre per hertz and that of spectral radiance in wavelength is the watt per steradian per square metre, per metre —commonly the watt per steradian per square metre per nanometre . The microflick is also used to measure spectral radiance in some fields. Radiance is used to characterize diffuse emission and reflection of electromagnetic radiation, or to quantify emission of neutrinos and other particles. Historically, radiance is called "intensity" and spectral radiance is called "specific intensity". Many fields still use this nomenclature. It is especially dominant in heat transfer, astrophysics and astronomy. "Intensity" has many other meanings in physics, with the most common being power per unit area.
Radiance is a suite of tools for performing lighting simulation originally written by Greg Ward. It includes a renderer as well as many other tools for measuring the simulated light levels. It uses ray tracing to perform all lighting calculations, accelerated by the use of an octree data structure. It pioneered the concept of high dynamic range imaging, where light levels are (theoretically) open-ended values instead of a decimal proportion of a maximum (e.g. 0.0 to 1.0) or integer fraction of a maximum (0 to 255 / 255). It also implements global illumination using the Monte Carlo method to sample light falling on a point.
Greg Ward started developing Radiance in 1985 while at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The source code was distributed under a license forbidding further redistribution. In January 2002 Radiance 3.4 was relicensed under a less restrictive license.
One study found Radiance to be the most generally useful software package for architectural lighting simulation. The study also noted that Radiance often serves as the underlying simulation engine for many other packages.
Radiance is a play by Australian author and playwright Louis Nowra. The play focuses on three Aboriginal half-sisters, who have gone their separate ways in life, and are reunited when they arrive for their mother's funeral service. Radiance has been written both as a stageplay and a screenplay.
Radiance is a 1998 Australian independent film. It is the first feature film by Aboriginal director Rachel Perkins about three indigenous sisters who reunite for their mother's funeral. The film is based on the play written by Louis Nowra.
Radiance is a live solo piano album by American pianist Keith Jarrett which was released on the ECM label in 2006. It was recorded in concert in 2002 on October 27 in Osaka and October 30, in Tokyo.
Radiance is the first book of The Immortals Series's spin - off called The Riley Bloom Series.
Radiance is a radiometric measure of the amount of light in an area.
Radiance may also refer to:
- Radiance (software), a software suite, including a renderer, for lighting simulation
- Radiance (play), a play by Louis Nowra
- Radiance (film), a 1998 Australian independent film
- Radiance / Chi ni Kaeru: On the Earth, a song by Mami Kawada
- Radiance (fragrance), a fragrance by Britney Spears
- Radiance (album), a solo piano album by Keith Jarrett
- Radiance, a novel by Carter Scholz
- Radiance (Jeff Tyzik album), a 1982 solo album by Jeff Tyzik
- Radiance, a novel by Louis B. Jones
- Radiance, a novel by Catherynne M. Valente
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Radiance-class cruise ship, class of cruise ships operated by Royal Caribbean
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Radiance is a women's fragrance and ninth released by Britney Spears for Elizabeth Arden, September 2010. Spears first revealed the fragrance in her Twitter account, later revealing through the same social network an advertisement, which features the singer in a long silver dress, that was later donated to raise funds for The Matthew Van Daff Special Needs Trust. The top notes of "Radiance" are wild berries and soft, dewy petals, mixed with tuberose, jasmine, orange blossom and iris. With the tagline "Choose your own destiny", the fragrance is available as 50 and 100 ml EDP. "Radiance" was also promoted in Spears' music videos for " Hold It Against Me" (2011) and " Criminal" (2011).
In 2011, it was revealed that "Radiance" was going to be re-issued into a new fragrance titled "Cosmic Radiance". With the tagline "Be the brightest star in the universe", the fragrance was released in August 2011, with an accompanying remix album by Spears released only on October 7, 2011. "Cosmic Radiance" was created by Honorine Blanc and Harry Fremont.
Usage examples of "radiance".
From its great humped bony-ridged back there streams an irresistible radiance, a mysterious shimmering amethystine glow that fills the sky and stains the water a deep violet.
We continually receive joyous news of the health and well-being of the Guardian of the Cause of God and eagerly hope that the night of separation may come to an end, that the period of bereavement may soon expire and his blessed person may return to this hallowed Spot with utmost joy and radiance.
In a matter of a few calm breaths Elminster was inside the dark chamber, with the door shut and spell-sealed behind him, and a radiance of his own making awakening everywhere along the low, cobwebbed ceiling.
Lamps that were milky opals self-effulgent filled all the chamber with a soft radiance, in which the bas-reliefs of the high dado, delicately carved, portraying those immortal blooms of amaranth and nepenthe and moly and Elysian asphodel, were seen in all their delicate beauty, and the fair painted pictures of the Lord of Krothering and his lady sister, and of Lord Juss above the great open fireplace with Goldry and Spitfire on his left and right.
They are dimmed by the unwonted radiance which spreads around and above Carlton House.
All was grey and misty in the courtyard, like steam from a smoking dunghill, but in the eastern sky the sun was diffusing a clear, cheerful radiance, and making the straw roofs of the sheds around the courtyard sparkle with the night dew.
Its yellow rays partially illumined the spacious kitchen, dying duskily away into remote corners, except where they settled in mellow radiance on the broad side of a flitch of bacon or were reflected back from well-scoured utensils that gleamed from the midst of obscurity.
The ectoplasm dispersed, its shining radiance flickering around the confines of the tomb like lightning.
With This he himself becomes identical, with that radiance whose Act is to engender Intellectual-Principle, not losing in that engendering but for ever unchanged, the engendered coming to be simply because that Supreme exists.
The vision has been of God in travail of a beautiful offspring, God engendering a universe within himself in a painless labour and--rejoiced in what he has brought into being, proud of his children--keeping all closely by Him, for pleasure He has in his radiance and in theirs.
A future life, then, really imposes no new duty upon the present, alters no fundamental ingredient in the present, takes away none of the charms and claims of the present, but merely sheds an additional radiance upon the shaded lights already shining here, infuses an additional motive into the stimulants already animating our purposes, distills an additional balm into the comforts which already assuage our sorrows amidst an evanescent scene.
She stood barely four feet tall in her tiny shoes, and her eyes lit the room with cold radiance.
He led them round the angle of the wall towards the west, and there, pitched in the full radiance of the sunset, with a wide space of hard earth gleaming with gypse around it, was a white tent.
Where they had left Izzard, a monstrous bonfire was burning, painting the sky with jewelled radiance.
The Metal Babes building like crystals from hearts of radiance beneath the play of jocund orbs!