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photometer | x |

As a noun photometer

is (physics) any of several instruments used to measure various aspects of the intensity of light.

As a verb photometer

is (astronomy) to measure some aspect of light (from a star) using a photometer.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

photometer

English

(wikipedia photometer)

Noun

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

    • Derived terms

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

    Related terms

    * photometric * photometry

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (astronomy) To measure some aspect of light (from a star) using a photometer.

    • Anagrams

    *

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----