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REFLECTIVE POWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reflective power mean? 

REFLECTIVE POWER (noun)
  The noun REFLECTIVE POWER has 1 sense:

1. the ratio of reflected to incident lightplay

  Familiarity information: REFLECTIVE POWER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REFLECTIVE POWER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The ratio of reflected to incident light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

albedo; reflective power

Hypernyms ("reflective power" is a kind of...):

ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))


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