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PHOTOMETRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does photometry mean?
• PHOTOMETRY (noun)
The noun PHOTOMETRY has 1 sense:
1. measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity)
Familiarity information: PHOTOMETRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("photometry" is a kind of...):
measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photometry"):
cytophotometry (the study of chemical compounds inside a cell by means of a cytophotometer)
Derivation:
photometrical (of or relating to photometry)
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