luminous
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lu·mi·nous
(lū'mə-nəs) 
adj.
luminousness lu'mi·nous·ness n.
adj.
- Emitting light, especially emitting self-generated light.
- Full of light; illuminated. See synonyms at bright.
- Easily comprehended; clear: luminous prose.
- Enlightened and intelligent; inspiring: luminous ideas.
[Middle English, from Old French lumineux, from Latin lūminōsus, from lūmen, lūmin-, light.]
luminously lu'mi·nous·ly adv.luminousness lu'mi·nous·ness n.
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luminous
adj
Definition: bright, glowing
Antonyms: dark, dim, dull, gloomy
adj
Definition: obvious, understandable
Antonyms: obscure, unclear, unintelligible, vague
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IN BRIEF: Giving off light.
The diamond was so big and well cut that it seemed to be luminous.
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luminous
- emitting visible light; bright, shining.
- (in photometry) (of a physical quantity relating to light) evaluated by the visual sensation of brightness to the eye of an observer rather than by an absolute measurement of radiant energy.
| luminophore, luminometry, luminometer | |
| luminous flux, luminous flux density, luminous intensity |
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Luminous (story collection)
Luminous is a collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan.
Luminous contains the following short stories.
- Chaff — An agent is sent to kill a geneticist who is working in a drug lord-controlled stronghold in the jungles of Colombia, and working on important brain-altering research.
- Mitochondrial Eve — An organisation is trying to trace a common maternal ancestor for recent humanity.
- Luminous — A pair of researchers find a defect in mathematics, where an assertion (X) leads to a contradictory assertion (not X) after a long but finite series of steps. Using a powerful virtual computer made of light beams (Luminous), they are able to map and shape the boundary between the near-side and far-side mathematics, leading to a showdown with real consequences in the physical universe.
- Mister Volition
- Cocoon
- Transition Dreams
- Silver Fire
- Reasons To Be Cheerful — A boy discovers he has a serious brain tumour, which was causing him to be amazingly happy. With it removed, he becomes despondent, and undergoes a new and extensive treatment eventually, with a form of brain network, to try to get back to a more useful life many years later.
- Our Lady Of Chernobyl — A man is hired to find a radioactive religious icon. The search turns deadly.
- The Planck Dive
The title story has since seen a sequel entitled Dark Integers. The sequel was published in the October/November 2007 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction.
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Luminous
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - lysende, selvlysende, lysstærk, strålende, klart oplyst, klar
Nederlands (Dutch)
lumineus, lichtgevend, schitterend, stralend
Français (French)
adj. - lumineux, brillant
Deutsch (German)
adj. - Leucht-, leuchtend, brillant
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - φωτεινός, φωτερός, φωτοβόλος, (μτφ.) διαυγής, σαφής
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - luminoso
Русский (Russian)
светящийся, световой, блестящий, ясный
Español (Spanish)
adj. - luminoso, brillante
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - lysande, självlysande, strålande, festligt upplyst, (bildl.) klar, redig, tydlig, åskådlig
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
发光的, 明亮的
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 發光的, 明亮的
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 빛을 내는 , 어둠에서 빛나는, 총명한, 조명된
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 光を発する, 光る, 明るい, 明瞭な
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) منير, مضئ, مضاء أو حسن الإضاءة, مستنير, ذكي, واضح يسهل فهمه
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - זוהר, מקרין, זורח, ברור, מבהיק
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