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Actinometry

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the measurement of the heating power of electromagnetic radiation, especially that of solar radiation

n. the measurement of the chemical or actinic energy of light

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The measurement of the force of solar radiation.

n. The measurement of the chemical or actinic energy of light.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The measurement of the intensity of radiation.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. measuring the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (especially of the sun's rays)

Word Usage

"These is also a photometric photographic catalogue of the stars nearest to the pole in PARKHURST's “Yerkes actinometry” (1912), [11] which contains all stars in B."

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measure mensuration measurement measuring