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  • noun Plural form of brightness.

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Examples

  • In this art they, the darknesses and brightnesses, constitute the woof of the play.

    March « 2009 « Alex McLean 2009

  • In this art they, the darknesses and brightnesses, constitute the woof of the play.

    Mary Hallock-Greenewalt « Alex McLean 2009

  • Still, orange, red, and yellow objects might still look different to them: the colors have different brightnesses.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • Still, orange, red, and yellow objects might still look different to them: the colors have different brightnesses.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • “If changing brightnesses and temperatures of two different planets are correlated, then some planetary climate changes may be due to variations in the solar system environment,”

    Al Gore needed for Mars and Neptune mission — Meandering Passage 2007

  • If changing brightnesses and temperatures of two different planets are correlated, then some planetary climate changes may be due to variations in the solar system environment.

    Swindle and Inconvenient Divergence « Climate Audit 2007

  • If changing brightnesses and temperatures of two different planets are correlated, then some planetary climate changes may be due to variations in the solar system environment.

    Unthreaded #9 « Climate Audit 2007

  • The clouds wring sunlight out in folds, and these lurking sea brightnesses are, maybe, how complexity looks.

    Seaside and mess poem Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • See all those individual stars, with different colors and brightnesses?

    Well, That was Fun. Julianne 2007

  • One thing you can do is to measure the color and brightnesses of individual stars.

    Well, That was Fun. Julianne 2007

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