Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

isoluminant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: iso-lu-mi-nant
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Equally luminant.

Example Sentences

"When visual fields are isoluminant, they look the same to our luminance processing pathway, while potentially looking quite different to the color processing path. This creates a perceptual tension exploited by skilled artists."
"An isoluminant chromatic display is a color display in which the component colors have been so carefully equated in luminance that they stimulate only color-sensitive perceptual mechanisms and not luminance-sensitive mechanisms."

Etymology

From iso- + luminant.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: iso

Inflected Forms

more isoluminant (comparative) most isoluminant (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

equiluminance

Synonyms

equiluminant

Questions

What does isoluminant mean?: Equally luminant.
Where does isoluminant come from?: From iso- + luminant.

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