bril
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A unit of luminance equal to tfrac 1 10⁷π candela per square metre.
Example Sentences
- "In the experiments, the brightness in brils was measured as a function of luminance for various adaptation levels of the eye."
- "Here, Q is brightness (or perceived luminance), measured in brils."
- "Tumblin's model aims to match a perceived quality known as brightness, measured in brils, so that the real world brightness and display brightness can be equated."
- "many of the old units-such as the nox, phot, glim, skot, and scot (identical), as well as the bril and brill (different)—are so antiquated as to be of interest only to the historian."