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photometrically

photometrically

1 9.8
By measuring light to find how bright something is
  • adverb
  • /ˌfoʊtəˈmɛtrɪkli/
  • Specialized
: fotométricamente
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  • measured photometrically

Examples

  • The resulting turbidity is measured photometrically.

    Academic text (2000)

  • This entire terrain was photometrically scanned because no, it's it's impossible for artists to have captured landscape that beautiful, that great.

  • We photometrically measured the absorbance of dopachrome at 490 nm every 20 seconds during 30 minutes at 30°C.

    Academic text (2018)

  • The researchers analyzed the samples photometrically to determine the light absorption levels.

  • We evaluated the luminance of the display photometrically to ensure consistent brightness.

  • The experiment required us to measure the light emitted by the source photometrically for accurate results.

Surface Forms

photometrically positive

Morphology

photometrically = photometric (semi-transparent) = photo + metr + ic + ly

The adverb is formed regularly from the technical adjective 'photometric', but the underlying scientific term is not highly accessible to typical learners.

Etymology

Photometrically comes from photo- meaning 'light' and -metric meaning 'measure', the same parts you see in photograph and in a meter that measures things. So, to do something photometrically is to 'measure it by light'.