Definition of Microphotometer

1. Noun. Special kind of densitometer that measures density variations over a very small area.

Generic synonyms: Densitometer

Definition of Microphotometer

1. Noun. (physics) Any of various photometers used either to measure the variation of densities over small areas, or to measure accurately small changes in illumination. ¹

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Definition of Microphotometer

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Microphotometer

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microphone
microphone boom
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microphotometer (current term)
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Literary usage of Microphotometer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. NBS Special Publication (1920)
"A New microphotometer. In connection with the investigation of spectra from ... for use as a microphotometer to measure the densities of spectral lines. ..."

2. Scientific papers of the Bureau of Standards by United States National Bureau of Standards (1920)
"microphotometer 3o? the polarization photometer are plotted as ordinates, and those measured with the pyrometer microphotometer as abscissae: If both ..."

3. A New Cadmium-vapor Arc Lamp by Frederick John Bates (1921)
"A NEW microphotometer FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC DENSITIES By WF Meggers and Paul D. Foote CONTENTS Page. I. Introduction II. Calibration 300 III. ..."

4. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy Of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences Staff, Caroline K. McEuen (1980)
"... Oxygen Lines in the Spectrum of Mars with the Registering microphotometer," Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 37(1 925): 158-59. ..."

5. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1915)
"Exact measurements of the lines are made with the Koch microphotometer (CA 8, 3643). The results of the tube arc and disruptive spark show an unsymmetrical ..."

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