Used in a Sentence

brightness

How to use brightness in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for brightness.

Editorial note

And the auto-brightness sensor means there is one less thing for me to fiddle with.

Examples15
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of brightness gathered in one view.

noun

the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white

noun

intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty

noun

the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light; "its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for brightness.

noun

the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white

Example sentences

1

And the auto-brightness sensor means there is one less thing for me to fiddle with.

2

If you feel like you're cooking your eyeballs, perhaps your screen brightness is just too high.

3

That is the point; it's all about color temperature, and not about brightness.

4

My 2013 11" Air gets 8 hours easily, but can go as long as 12 or as short as 2 depending on screen brightness and CPU usage.

5

Take the brightness control of LEDs using PWM and color mixing of different LED colors to make color changing LED lighting.

6

In rural areas, you often dial down the brightness of all controls to preserve night vision in case an animal or debris is in the road.

7

Even so, when I use my laptop for coding and reading text, I turn the brightness down because it is easier on my eyes and does not give me headaches.

8

Heavy contrast can be. Instead, get down to the root reasons that we have issues with contrast in short, we're wired to notice differences in color or brightness than we are for absolute values of color or brightness.

9

I think it was a bad patent because it was obvious even in 1999 that you could use PWM, common already, to vary power through a LED to control brightness.

10

The shader for the caustics needs the ratio of the projected area to the original area for each triangle to compute the brightness.

11

Which is to say, they have a maximum brightness, a much lower native contrast ratio than paper, and their display properties get markedly worse as ambient light levels increase.

12

It's clearly more of a jump from a zoom button to a multitouch gesture than the jump from "LEDs can have variable brightness and different colors" to "LEDs can be mixed to make color changing lights".

13

It might just be me, mainly because I drive an "old" car that doesn't dim/adjust my rear view mirror based on others drivers lights, but I find the uber brightness of other drivers lights to be a real pain these days.

14

Some details are just really hard to make out on the computer screen, without fiddling with contrast/brightness settings- You may have the computer settings at a particular level where "browsing" the field is impossible.

15

A great deal of formal art education is learning to detach your visual stimulus from the semantic association you would otherwise naturally make...and perhaps reattach it to new semantic associations like "negative space" and "comparative brightness" and "relative white value".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use brightness in a sentence?

And the auto-brightness sensor means there is one less thing for me to fiddle with.

What does brightness mean?

the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white

What part of speech is brightness?

brightness is commonly used as noun.