Definition of Photometer. Meaning of Photometer. Synonyms of Photometer

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Definition of Photometer

Photometer
Photometer Pho*tom"e*ter, n. [Photo- + -meter: cf. F. photom[`e]tre.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.

Meaning of Photometer from wikipedia

- A photometer is an instrument that measures the strength of electromagnetic radiation in the range from ultraviolet to infrared and including the visible...
- It is also known as flame emission spectroscopy. A photoelectric flame photometer is an instrument used in inorganic chemical analysis to determine the...
- A Sun photometer is a type of photometer conceived in such a way that it points at the Sun. Recent sun photometers are automated instruments incorporating...
- The Kepler photometer is the main instrument on NASA's Kepler space telescope. It is a Schmidt telescope (95 cm clear aperture, 140 cm mirror) with an...
- University; the flight hardware was built by Ball Aerospace. Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) Three detector arrays in the mid- to far-infrared (128...
- through a telescope using a photometer, often made using electronic devices such as a CCD photometer or a photoelectric photometer that converts light into...
- The tiny ionospheric photometer (TIP) is a small space-based photometer that observes the Earth's ionosphere at 135.6 nm. The TIP instruments were designed...
- The High Speed Photometer (HSP) is a scientific instrument formerly installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. The HSP was designed to measure the brightness...
- astronomical data on stars, and new technologies such as the photoelectric photometer allowed astronomers to accurately measure the color and luminosity of...
- direction prior to detection. The Blue Photometer (BP) operates in the wavelength range 330–680 nm; the Red Photometer (RP) covers the wavelength range 640–1050 nm...