photometer

English

Etymology

photo- +‎ -meter

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈtɑmədəɹ/, /ˈfoʊɾoʊˌmidəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɑmədəɹ

Noun

photometer (plural photometers)

1. (physics) Any of several instruments used to measure various aspects of the intensity of light.

Hyponyms

• colorimetric photometer
• distribution photometer
• electronic photometer
• flame photometer
• flicker photometer
• grease spot photometer
• infrared photometer
• integrating-sphere photometer
• Joly photometer
• Kepler photometer
• light-distribution photometer
• photoelectric photometer
• photoemissive tube photometer
• shadow photometer
• spectrophotometer
• sphere photometer
• telephotometer
• ultraviolet photometer
• visual photometer
• wax-block photometer
• wedge photometer

 

Derived terms

• photopolarimeter
• spectrophotometer
• telephotometer

Related terms

• photometric
• photometry

Translations

measuring instrument

• Asturian: fotómetru m
• Catalan: fotòmetre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 光度計／光度计 (zh), 光度计 (zh) (guāngdùjì)

• Finnish: fotometri (fi)
• French: photomètre (fr) m
• Galician: fotómetro (gl) m
• German: Luminometer n
• Irish: fótaiméadar m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: fotometro m
• Japanese: 光度計 (こうどけい, kōdokei)
• Malay: jangka cahaya, fotometer
• Portuguese: fotómetro m (Portugal), fotômetro m (Brazil)
• Romanian: fotometru (ro) n
• Russian: фото́метр (ru) m (fotómetr)
• Spanish: fotómetro m
• Tagalog: sugasukat, sugasukod

Verb

photometer (third-person singular simple present photometers, present participle photometering, simple past and past participle photometered)

1. (astronomy) To measure some aspect of light (from a star) using a photometer.

Anagrams

• prototheme