ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does absorption coefficient mean? 

• ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT (noun)
  The noun ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT has 1 sense:

1. a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber

  Familiarity information: ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

absorptance; absorption coefficient; coefficient of absorption

Context example:

absorptance equals 1 minus transmittance

Hypernyms ("absorption coefficient" is a kind of...):

coefficient (a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic)