Glare vs Luminance - What's the difference?
glare | luminance |
(uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
* Dryden
Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
An angry or fierce stare.
* Milton
(telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
(US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
A viscous, transparent substance; glair.
To stare angrily.
* Byron
To shine brightly.
* Dryden
To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
* Alexander Pope
To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
* Milton
the quality of being luminous
the luminous flux emitted in a given direction divided by the product of the projected area of the source element perpendicular to the direction and the solid angle containing that direction, i.e. luminous intensity divided by unit area; measured in stilbs or apostilbs
As nouns the difference between glare and luminance
is that glare is an intense, blinding light while luminance is the quality of being luminous.As a verb glare
is to stare angrily.As an adjective glare
is smooth and bright or translucent; glary.glare
English
Noun
(en noun)- the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare
- About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare .
- a glare of ice
Verb
(glar)- He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
- an eye that scorcheth all it glares upon
- The sun glared down on the desert sand.
- The cavern glares with new-admitted light.
- She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
- Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.