Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The determination of the strength of colors, especially of dyes, by means of a colorimeter.
  • noun The quantitative measurement, as in chemical analysis, of a colored substance by comparing the depth of color of its solution with that of a solution of known strength of the same or a similarly colored substance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance.
  • noun A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The science of measuring colours and assigning them numeric values.
  • noun analytical chemistry Analysis involving the quantitative measurement of colour.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter

Etymologies

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color +‎ -metry

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Examples

  • Page 418, Volume 3 physicists from the eighteenth to the twentieth century was the emergence of two new sciences; photometry and colorimetry, both arising with the evident purpose of measuring light first and color afterward.

    OPTICS AND VISION VASCO RONCHI 1968

  • The important principles around which practically all quantitative methods may be grouped are: Neutralization, solubility-product, oxidation-reduction, colorimetry, and evolution and measurement of gases.

    The University of Virginia Record 1927

  • The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

  • The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

  • The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

  • The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

  • The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

  • The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

  • Brief reviews of photometry, colorimetry, and brightness perception are presented as a foundation for the discussion of circadian light.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Mark Rea 2010

  • The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

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