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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The fraction of incident electromagnetic radiation reflected by a surface, especially of a celestial body.
  2. n. The spongy white tissue on the inside of the rind of citrus fruit.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Whiteness; specifically, the proportion of light falling on a surface and irregularly reflected from it: as, the albedo of the moon.

Wiktionary

  1. n. physics, meteorology, astronomy The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body, commonly expressed as percentage.
  2. n. biology The whitish inner portion of the rind of citrus fruits that is a source of pectin, commonly referred to as the pith.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Astron.) Whiteness. The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the ratio of reflected to incident light

Etymologies

  1. From Latin albēdō ("whiteness"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Latin albēdō, whiteness, from Latin albus, white; see albho- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • reesetee Great article, brtom--thanks for posting this. Jan 3, 2008

  • brtom I was enjoying the book until I came across the following sentence: "The albedo of Gilgit's brown, barren hills is high, and the heat from the sun just seems to bounce around the bowl that the town sits in." James Meek Jan 3, 2008

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