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Photometry

noun
1.
Measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity).



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"Photometry" Quotes from Famous Books



... giving to those of the larger magnitudes the names they still bear on our maps and globes; they determined the true length of the year, discovered astronomical refraction, invented the pendulum-clock, improved the photometry of the stars, ascertained the curvilinear path of a ray of light through the air, explained the phenomena of the horizontal sun and moon, and why we see those bodies before they have risen and after they have set; measured the height ...
— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper


Words linked to "Photometry" :   mensuration, measure, measuring, photometrical, measurement


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