photometer

English

Etymology

From photo- +‎ -meter.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fəˈtɑmɪtɚ/, /ˈfoʊtoʊˌmitɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəˈtɒmɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈfəʊtəʊˌmiːtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ), -iːtə(ɹ)

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
• Bengali: ফটোমিটার (phoṭōmiṭar)
• Catalan: fotòmetre m
• Chinese:

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

• Finnish: fotometri (fi)
• French: photomètre (fr) m
• Galician: fotómetro (gl) m
• German: Luminometer n
• Irish: fótaiméadar m
• Italian: fotometro m
• Japanese: 光度計 (こうどけい, kōdokei)
• Kazakh: фотометр (fotometr)
• Macedonian: фотоме́тар m (fotométar)
• Malay: jangka cahaya, fotometer (ms)
• Persian: نورسنج (fa)
• Polish: fotometr (pl) m
• Portuguese: fotómetro m (Portugal), fotômetro m (Brazil)
• Romanian: fotometru (ro) n
• Russian: фото́метр (ru) m (fotómetr)
• Spanish: fotómetro m
• Tagalog: sugasukat, sugasukod
• Uzbek: fotometr (uz)

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