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Bright: A brush with short-haired bristles.

Brightness (Luminance): In the context of television's image quality, how bright or dark a color is.

Brightness Controls: Adjustments on an LCD to make it more readable in bright light.

Brightline Viewfinder: Viewfinder in which the subject is outlined by a bright frame, apparently suspended in space. This may show parallax correction marks, or lines indicating the fields of view of different foc . . . View Full Definition

Bright Band: A narrow, intense radar echo due to water-covered ice particles at the melting level where reflectivity is at its greatest.

Brighton: Has synonym names Trask and Royal Rose. Suitable for wine or tablegrape use it is reported as derived from a Diana Hamburg x Concord cross released by the New York Geneva Research Station in . . . View Full Definition

Brightness Range: Subjective term describing the difference in illumination between the darkest and lightest areas of the subject.

Brightfield: Method of illumination used in photomicrography which will show a specimen against a white or light background.

Thon Rings: rings visible in the power spectrum of micrographs obtained by bright-field electron microscopy. These rings can be explained as the effect of the contrast transfer function, which modulates . . . View Full Definition

Paint: The area inside the free-throw lane.