radiance
Etymology

From radiant + -ance.

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈɹeɪdi.əns/
Noun

radiance

  1. The quality or state of being radiant; shining, bright or splendid.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗:
      Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned.
  2. (physics) The flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a source.
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