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phot

phot

1 9.9
A unit for measuring how much light falls on one square centimetre
  • noun
  • /foʊt/
  • Specialized
: fotón
  • In photometry, one phot is defined as the illumination from a light source of one lumen per square centimeter.

Examples

  • Now you're paying off modern phot, huh?

  • And the phot of you returning the following morning at 7:00 A.M. kinda blows a hole in your whole "home in bed" thing.

  • Sometimes it might involve the release of documents and on other occasions it might relate to a whistleblower or to phots and videos of UFOs.

  • I have no association or do I benefit from this, but while at the PDN Phot Expo in NYC at the Javits Center, I bought a copy of Photoshop Cafe on disk, 64 videos plus other stuff for under a hundred.

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  • The phot is a unit of measurement used to quantify illumination in photography.

  • To measure the brightness of the light, the scientist recorded readings in phot.

Synonyms

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  • Specialized
1 9.9

A unit of brightness used to measure light

is used mainly in photometry rather than defined by a surface model

Surface Forms

phot singular
phots plural

Etymology

Phot comes from the Greek root phos, which means 'light', and the same root is in photo and photograph. So a phot is simply a unit that measures the amount of 'light' on a surface, which is why it is used to talk about brightness.