LIGHT INTENSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does light intensity mean? 

• LIGHT INTENSITY (noun)
  The noun LIGHT INTENSITY has 1 sense:

1. luminous intensity measured in candelas

  Familiarity information: LIGHT INTENSITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIGHT INTENSITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Luminous intensity measured in candelas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

candlepower; light intensity

Hypernyms ("light intensity" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

Small differences in optical path length due to differences in refractive index and thickness of structures are visualised as differences in light intensity.

(Phase-Contrast Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

An instrument that measures the light intensity emitted from a sample.

(Photometer, NCI Thesaurus)

A partial spectrum of the back-scattered light intensity is recorded and analyzed.

(Partial Wave Spectroscopic Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

This system defines units to measure length, time, mass, electric current, temperature, light intensity, and the amount of a substance.

(International Unit, NCI Dictionary)

An indication of the relative light intensity of a source or object.

(Brightness, NCI Thesaurus)

Anaemic blood transmits more light compared to normal blood, so the severity of anaemia can be measured as a ratio of transmitted to original light intensity.

(New approach promises better anaemia detection, SciDev.Net)