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transmittivity

transmittivity noun: a measure of transmittance.

Noun

transmittivity (plural transmittivities)

  1. A measure of transmittance.
    • Ideally, its secret key rate scales as the square root of the transmittivity of the optical channel, which is superior to QKD schemes based on direct transmission because key rates for the latter scale at best linearly with transmittivity.2015, David Luong, Liang Jiang, Jungsang Kim, Norbert Lütkenhaus, “Overcoming lossy channel bounds using a single quantum repeater node”, in arXiv

Forms of transmittivity

pluraltransmittivities

Questions about transmittivity

What does transmittivity mean?
Transmittivity means a measure of transmittance.
What part of speech is transmittivity?
Transmittivity is a noun.
What is the plural of transmittivity?
The plural of transmittivity is transmittivities.

Words near transmittivity in the dictionary

  1. transmitted
  2. transmitter
  3. transmitters
  4. transmittible
  5. transmitting
  6. transmittivity
  7. transmodal
  8. transmodalities
  9. transmodality
  10. transmodally
  11. transmodern

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