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actinometries

actinometries is the plural of actinometry.

Meaning of actinometry

Noun

actinometry (countable and uncountable, plural actinometries)

  1. the measurement of the heating power of electromagnetic radiation, especially that of solar radiation
    • the air with its actinometry presents itself in the light of a thermal adjustment , by which the land and sea are prevented from becoming seething hot1855, Matthew Fontaine Maury, The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology
  2. the measurement of the chemical or actinic energy of light
    • ACTINOMETRY (chapter title)1878, William de Wiveleslie Abney, A treatise on photography

Questions about actinometries

What is actinometries the plural of?
Actinometries is the plural of actinometry.

Words near actinometries in the dictionary

  1. actinomeric
  2. actinomes
  3. actinometer
  4. actinometers
  5. actinometric
  6. actinometries
  7. actinometry
  8. actinomorphic
  9. actinomorphically
  10. actinomorphous
  11. actinomorphy

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