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adj. - Of or relating to measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity)

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Usage examples (6)
  • Mr. Defty has sought in the latter to apply the principle of heating the air and gas in a simple manner, with the object of obtaining improved photometrical results.
  • The ratio of the radiant flux with the wavelength Lambda (m) and the radiant flux with the wavelength Lambda both radiations causing the same brightness impression in certain...
  • Letheby photometer, in order to give your readers an opportunity of estimating for themselves the effect which such variations from the true distance between the standard light...
  • Opposite this table we installed, later on, our photometrical chamber, which was constructed on the Bunsen principle.
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