TRANSMISSION DENSITY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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 ("transmission 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)

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