phot
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- noun
- /foʊt/
- Specialized
- In photometry, one phot is defined as the illumination from a light source of one lumen per square centimeter.
Examples
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Now you're paying off modern phot, huh?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To measure the brightness of the light, the scientist recorded readings in phot.
Synonyms
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A unit of brightness used to measure light
Surface Forms
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.