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photocounter

photocounter noun: a device that counts photons.

Noun

photocounter (plural photocounters)

  1. A device that counts photons.
    • Generalized complete Bell polynomials are used in order to compute joint moments and joint cumulants of multivariate photocounters.2015, Elvira Di Nardo, “On photon statistics parametrized by a non-central Wishart random matrix”, in arXiv

Forms of photocounter

pluralphotocounters

Origin of photocounter

From photo- + counter.

Questions about photocounter

What does photocounter mean?
Photocounter means a device that counts photons.
What part of speech is photocounter?
Photocounter is a noun.
What is the plural of photocounter?
The plural of photocounter is photocounters.

Words near photocounter in the dictionary

  1. photocorner
  2. photocorners
  3. photocorrosion
  4. photocorrosive
  5. photocount
  6. photocounter
  7. photocounters
  8. photocounting
  9. photocounts
  10. photocoupled
  11. photocoupler

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