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Brightness is an antonym of "dimness" or "dullness". With regard to stars , brightness is quantified as apparent magnitude and absolute magnitude . Two pictograms resembling the Sun with rays are used to represent the settings of luminance in display devices .
Paul Geisert, who coined the term bright and co-founded the bright movement [2] is a one-time Chicago biology teacher, professor, entrepreneur and writer of learning materials. [3] In deciding to attend the Godless Americans March on Washington in 2002, Geisert disliked the label "godless" because he thought it would alienate the general public ...
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
The Big Dipper seen from Fujian. The constellation of Ursa Major (Latin: Greater Bear) has been seen as a bear, a wagon, or a ladle.The "bear" tradition is Indo-European (appearing in Greek, as well as in Vedic India), [7] but apparently the name "bear" has parallels in Siberian or North American traditions.
In Vietnamese, minh means among other things "bright, clear" (from Sino-Vietnamese 明) and "dead, gloomy" (from 冥). Because of this, the name of the dwarf planet Pluto is not adapted from 冥王星 as in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. [29] [30] [31] Spanish dichoso meant originally "blissful, fortunate" as in tierra dichosa, "fortunate land".
Bright (company), a platform distributing digital art; Bright.com, an online job matching tool acquired by LinkedIn; Bright Automotive, American manufacturer of electric vehicles; More Radio Mid-Sussex, formerly Bright FM, a local radio station in Sussex, UK
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The bright initial flash of a nuclear weapon is the first indication of a nuclear explosion, traveling faster than the blast wave or sound wave. [6] "A 1-megaton explosion can cause flash blindness at distances as great as 13 miles (21 km) on a clear day, or 53 miles (85 km) on a clear night.