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photocounting

photocounting noun: the counting of photons.

Noun

photocounting (uncountable)

  1. The counting of photons.
    • The role played by spectral statistics of random matrices is highlighted in approximating the overall photocounting distribution when acting intensities are modeled by a non-central Wishart random matrix.2015, Elvira Di Nardo, “On photon statistics parametrized by a non-central Wishart random matrix”, in arXiv

Origin of photocounting

From photo- + counting.

Questions about photocounting

What does photocounting mean?
Photocounting means the counting of photons.
What part of speech is photocounting?
Photocounting is a noun.

Words near photocounting in the dictionary

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

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