Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
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Luminosity
Synonyms for "luminosity" (14 found)
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Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (4)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (7)
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1 entriesderived
10 entriesderived from
2 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 15 languages.
Esperanto
1 entries- lumeco noun (state of being luminous)
Finnish
4 entries- luminositeetti noun (ratio of luminous to radiant flux)
- luminositeetti noun (rate at which a star radiates energy)
- säteilyteho noun (ratio of luminous to radiant flux)
- säteilyteho noun (rate at which a star radiates energy)
French
1 entries- luminosité noun (state of being luminous)
Georgian
2 entries- სხივიერობა noun (state of being luminous)
- სხივოსნობა noun (state of being luminous)
German
3 entries- Helligkeit noun (state of being luminous)
- Leuchtkraft noun (ratio of luminous to radiant flux)
- Leuchtkraft noun (rate at which a star radiates energy)
Greek
3 entries- αντιφέγγισμα noun (state of being luminous)
- φωτεινότητα noun (ratio of luminous to radiant flux)
- φωτεινότητα noun (rate at which a star radiates energy)
Indonesian
1 entries- kilau noun (state of being luminous)
Italian
3 entries- luminosità noun (state of being luminous)
- luminosità noun (ratio of luminous to radiant flux)
- luminosità noun (rate at which a star radiates energy)
Korean
1 entries- 발광성 noun (state of being luminous)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- luminositet noun (rate at which a star radiates energy)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- luminositet noun (rate at which a star radiates energy)
Romanian
1 entries- luminozitate noun (state of being luminous)
Russian
1 entries- свечение noun (state of being luminous)
Spanish
2 entries- luminosidad noun (state of being luminous)
- luminosidad noun (rate at which a star radiates energy)
Turkish
2 entries- kadir noun (rate at which a star radiates energy)
- parlaklık noun (state of being luminous)
Sample sentences
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The planetarium show vividly illustrates how stars vary widely in mass, temperature, age, color, luminosity and size. But the underlying physics for each of the estimated 100 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy — and in the 100 billion other galaxies — is the same.
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They reported encountering a luminosity of great intensity and loving angelic beings.
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We recognize the same pattern as in the left panel, with dM stars being much less frequent flarers than dMe stars of similar luminosity.
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