PHOTOMETRY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("photometry" is a kind of...):

measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photometry"):

cytophotometry (the study of chemical compounds inside a cell by means of a cytophotometer)

Derivation:

photometrical (of or relating to photometry)