Definition of Photometric

1. Adjective. Of or relating to photometry.

Exact synonyms: Photometrical
Partainyms: Photometry, Photometry
Derivative terms: Photometry

Definition of Photometric

1. a. Of or pertaining to photometry, or to a photometer.

Definition of Photometric

1. Adjective. Of or relating to photometry or to photometers. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of leaves) Adjusting position with respect to light. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Photometric

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Photometric

photomapping
photomaps
photomask
photomasks
photomechanical
photomechanically
photomechanics
photomechanochemistry
photomedicine
photomeson
photomesons
photometer
photometered
photometering
photometers
photometric (current term)
photometrical
photometrically
photometrician
photometricians
photometries
photometrist
photometry
photomicrograph
photomicrographs
photomicrography
photomicroscope
photomicroscopes
photomontage
photomontages

Literary usage of Photometric

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

1. Smithsonian Physical Tables by Smithsonian Institution, Frederick Eugene Fowle (1916)
"photometric Standards. No primary photometric standard has been generally adopted by the various governments. IE Germany the Heiner lamp is most used ..."

2. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"Equations of definition of photometric magnitudes. II. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY photometric STANDARDS A photometric standard is a standard of light flux, ..."

3. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"Equations of definition of photometric magnitudes. II. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY photometric STANDARDS A photometric standard is a standard of light flux, ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Gas Institute by American Gas Institute (1913)
"International photometric Commission and to accept its findings.. As a result of that canvass it was concluded that although there was a willingness on the ..."

5. Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander Von Humboldt, Benjamin Horatio Paul, William Sweetland Dallas, Elise C. Otté (1852)
"Sir John Herschel has proposed this ' photometric' (raised) scale for acceptance (Cape Obs. p. 372; Outl. p. 522), and his proposal will surely be assented ..."

6. Illumination and Photometry by William Elgin Wickenden (1910)
"The accuracy of photometric measurements is therefore subject to the ... Instruments intended for photometric use should be so devised as to utilize the ..."

7. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1897)
"J. VIOLLE—AN ACETYLENE photometric STANDARD. (Compta Rendus, Vol, 122, No. 2, />. 79.) The ase of flames as standards possesses many advantages from a ..."

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