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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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The companion is a B-type star, 400 times as luminous as the Sun.
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Lambda is a red K-type star over 5000 times as luminous as the Sun; binoculars show the colour well.
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It is bluish-white, and 780 times as luminous as the Sun; its distance is 85 light-years.
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Spica, over 2000 times as luminous as the Sun, is bluish-white.
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Al Nath is a bluish-white star, almost 500 times as luminous as the Sun.
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Both Alpha and Beta are very distant, and are well over 5000 times as luminous as the Sun.
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Mirphak is an F5-type giant, 620 light-years away and 6000 times as luminous as the Sun.
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It is 42 light-years away, and over 150 times as luminous as the Sun.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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luminous road signs
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luminous socks
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He couldn't tell what time it was since his watch didn't have a luminous dial.
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It's a good idea to paint your bike with luminous paint so that you are more visible to motorists.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But why should the choice involve a showy crown or a pair of luminous buttocks?
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Her eyes were dark and luminous and her faintly olive skin normally carried a dusting of colour, high on her cheekbones.
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Her eyes were huge, almost luminous in the shadowy light.
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Tau Ceti is rather smaller, dimmer and less luminous than the Sun.
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The mountains, luminous and romantic, lay all across the western horizon.
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The sky was aflame with the aurora borealis, the eerily luminous northern lights.