PHOTOGRAPHIC DENSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does photographic density mean? 

• PHOTOGRAPHIC DENSITY (noun)
  The noun PHOTOGRAPHIC DENSITY has 1 sense:

1. (physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation

  Familiarity information: PHOTOGRAPHIC DENSITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOTOGRAPHIC DENSITY (noun)

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Meaning:

(physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

absorbance; optical density; photographic density; transmission density

Hypernyms ("photographic density" is a kind of...):

denseness; density (the amount per unit size)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)