Definition of Emissivities

1. Noun. (plural of emissivity) ¹

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Definition of Emissivities

1. emissivity [n] - See also: emissivity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Emissivities

emissile
emission
emission-computed tomography
emission electron
emission line
emission lines
emission offset
emission spectrum
emission standard
emission theory
emissions
emissions test
emissions tests
emissitious
emissive
emissivities (current term)
emissivity
emissory
emit
emits
emittance
emittances
emitted
emittent
emitter
emitter-coupled logic
emitters
emitting
emma
emmantle

Literary usage of Emissivities

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

1. A Manual of Practical Physics: For Students of Science and Engineering by Ervin Sidney Ferry, Arthur Taber Jones (1908)
"—Thermal emissivities of Different Surfaces The following results were obtained by Bottomley for a cooling copper globe surrounded by air at atmospheric ..."

2. Smithsonian Physical Tables by Smithsonian Institution, Frederick Eugene Fowle (1920)
"emissivities of Metals and Oxides. In the solid state practically all the metals examined ... emissivities for radiation of wave-length 0.55 and 0.65 ц. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1892)
"The emissivities have been calculated in calories lost per second per square centimetre per 1° C. excess temperature, in order that they may be compared ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1916)
"23-193, gives in part for various colored surfaces the relative emissivities e as percentage of that from a black body. Temperature deg cent, ('room 27 ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1885)
"239), though in no case, I believe, were the emissivities in absolute measure determined. The conclusion come to by all these experimenters is the same, ..."

6. Light for Students by Edwin Edser (1920)
"The comparison of luminous emissivities is termed Photometry, and an arrangement for effecting photometric measurements is termed a Photometer. ..."

7. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"It is true that some substances which have low emissivities exhibit also the property of selectivity, which will be discussed presently, but it should be ..."

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