Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The measurement of the intensity of radiation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The measurement of the force of solar radiation.
- noun The measurement of the chemical or actinic energy of light.
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- noun the measurement of the
heating power ofelectromagnetic radiation , especially that ofsolar radiation - noun the measurement of the chemical or actinic energy of
light
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun measuring the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (especially of the sun's rays)
Etymologies
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actino- + -metry
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Examples
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These is also a photometric photographic catalogue of the stars nearest to the pole in PARKHURST's “Yerkes actinometry” (1912), [11] which contains all stars in B.
Lectures on Stellar Statistics Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier 1898
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n. - instrument measuring heating power of the sun's rays; Photography, instrument for calculating exposure times. actinometry, adj.
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