Photometry

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  • noun. Measurement of the properties of light, especially luminous intensity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The measurement of the relative amounts of light emitted by different sources.
  • noun. Measurement of the amount of insufficiency of the external muscles of the eye; the scientific use of the phorometer.
  • noun. In biology, the reactional movement, positive and negative, with an indifference point between, of organisms under changing intensity of illumination.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the measurement of various aspects of light, especially its intensity
  • noun. the measurement of the intensity and spectrum of light from stars
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  • noun. measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity)
  • Word Usage
    "Christie: There are lots of ways you can get involved in observational astronomy, but in talking about photometry, which is a measurement of star brightness, you basically just need a telescope with as much aperture as you can afford."
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