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PHOTOGRAPHIC DENSITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation
Synonyms:
absorbance; optical density; photographic density; transmission density
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("photographic density" is a kind of...):
denseness; density (the amount per unit size)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)