Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The determination of the strength of colors, especially of dyes, by means of a colorimeter.
- noun The quantitative measurement, as in chemical analysis, of a colored substance by comparing the depth of color of its solution with that of a solution of known strength of the same or a similarly colored substance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance.
- noun A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
science ofmeasuring colours and assigning them numeric values. - noun analytical chemistry
Analysis involving the quantitativemeasurement ofcolour .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter
Etymologies
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Examples
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Page 418, Volume 3 physicists from the eighteenth to the twentieth century was the emergence of two new sciences; photometry and colorimetry, both arising with the evident purpose of measuring light first and color afterward.
OPTICS AND VISION VASCO RONCHI 1968
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The important principles around which practically all quantitative methods may be grouped are: Neutralization, solubility-product, oxidation-reduction, colorimetry, and evolution and measurement of gases.
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The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.
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The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.
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The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.
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The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.
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The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.
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The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.
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Brief reviews of photometry, colorimetry, and brightness perception are presented as a foundation for the discussion of circadian light.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Mark Rea 2010
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The Alert colorimeter uses the differential absorbance colorimetry (DAC) methodology to prevent background sample colour and solids adversely affecting the analysis.
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