RADIO BRIGHTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radio brightness mean? 

• RADIO BRIGHTNESS (noun)
  The noun RADIO BRIGHTNESS has 1 sense:

1. the strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope

  Familiarity information: RADIO BRIGHTNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIO BRIGHTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("radio brightness" is a kind of...):

intensity; intensity level; strength (the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation))

 Context examples 

In particular, an increase in X-ray and radio brightness of the supernova remnant with time, is expected only if a white dwarf merger took place.

(Trigger for Milky Way’s Youngest Supernova Identified, NASA)