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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Sensitive to all colors.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In photography, sensitive to all the spectrum colors from the red to the violet. Such plates are obtained by the use of methyl and ethyl dyes, as methyl isocyanins.
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- adjective photography (of black and white film)
sensitive to allvisible colours
Etymologies
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Examples
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The new method, which has been under development for more than five years, adds "panchromatic" cells that are sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light and collect a larger amount of light striking the sensor.
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"The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) consists of 2 narrow angle camera heads (NACs) to provide 0.5 m-scale panchromatic images over a 5-km swath, a wide angle camera head (WAC) to provide images at a scale of 100 m in seven color bands, and a common Sequence and Compressor System (SCS) to sequence image acquisition by all camera heads and compress their data before transmission to the spacecraft." anonymous
The LRO Launch Slip NASA Has Still Not Announced Yet - NASA Watch 2009
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Due to this short period of time, the fact that archaeological artifacts had already been mapped and the roughness of the terrain, we decided to measure only elevation and a dozen of ground control points in order to do the large scale mapping on the georectified Quickbird satellite image of which the panchromatic band has a resolution of 60 to 70 centimeters.
Topographical Survey « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009
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One sensing system produces black and white panchromatic images from the visible band (0.51 to 0.73 micrometers) with a ground resolution of 10 x 10 meters.
Remote sensing 2009
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The company that took the photograph, DigitalGlobe, describes it as “a panchromatic, 50 centimeter 1.6 foot high-resolution WorldView-1 satellite image showing the rocket launch from the Musudan Ri launch facility, formerly known as Taepo-dong.”
Satellite Image Shows North Korean Rocket Launch - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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SPOT-5 has a maximum ground resolution of 2.5 x 2.5 meters in both panchromatic mode and multispectral operation.
Remote sensing 2009
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Due to this short period of time, the fact that archaeological artifacts had already been mapped and the roughness of the terrain, we decided to measure only elevation and a dozen of ground control points in order to do the large scale mapping on the georectified Quickbird satellite image of which the panchromatic band has a resolution of 60 to 70 centimeters.
Topographical Survey « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009
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The company that took the photograph, DigitalGlobe, describes it as “a panchromatic, 50 centimeter 1.6 foot high-resolution WorldView-1 satellite image showing the rocket launch from the Musudan Ri launch facility, formerly known as Taepo-dong.”
Satellite Image Shows North Korean Rocket Launch - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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In addition, color photography, of course, needed panchromatic plates; to extend sensitization over the whole visible spectrum, Lippmann teamed up with the Lumière brothers, at that time the leading photographic manufacturers in Europe.
Lippmann's and Gabor's Revolutionary Approach to Imaging 2005
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The spatial resolution of IKONOS amounts to 1 m for the panchromatic band and 4 m for the multispectral bands (Blue, green, red, NIR).
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Geomorphological Survey Report 2 2003
iarwain commented on the word panchromatic
Evelyn the dog, having undergone further modification, pondered the significance of short person behavior in pedal-depressed, panchromatic resonance and other highly ambient domains. "Arf," she said. -- Frank Zappa
May 19, 2009