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PHOTOMETRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does photometry mean? 

PHOTOMETRY (noun)
  The noun PHOTOMETRY has 1 sense:

1. measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity)play

  Familiarity information: PHOTOMETRY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PHOTOMETRY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("photometry" is a kind of...):

measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photometry"):

cytophotometry (the study of chemical compounds inside a cell by means of a cytophotometer)

Derivation:

photometrical (of or relating to photometry)


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