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  • English Word Photographometer Definition An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.
  • English Word Photography Definition The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.
  • English Word Photography Definition The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light.
  • English Word Photogravure Definition A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.
  • English Word Photoheliograph Definition A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking photographs of the sun.
  • English Word Photolithograph Definition A lithographic picture or copy from a stone prepared by the aid of photography.
  • English Word Photolithograph Definition To produce (a picture, a copy) by the process of photolithography.
  • English Word Photolithographer Definition One who practices, or one who employs, photolithography.
  • English Word Photolithographic Definition Of or pertaining to photolithography; produced by photolithography.
  • English Word Photolithography Definition The art or process of producing photolithographs.
  • English Word Photologic Definition Alt. of Photological
  • English Word Photological Definition Pertaining to photology, or the doctrine of light.
  • English Word Photologist Definition One who studies or expounds the laws of light.
  • English Word Photology Definition The doctrine or science of light, explaining its nature and phenomena; optics.
  • English Word Photomagnetic Definition Of or pertaining to photomagnetism.
  • English Word Photomagnetism Definition The branch of science which treats of the relation of magnetism to light.
  • English Word Photomechanical Definition Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.
  • English Word Photometer Definition An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.
  • English Word Photometric Definition Alt. of Photometrical
  • English Word Photometrical Definition Of or pertaining to photometry, or to a photometer.
  • English Word Photometrician Definition One engaged in the scientific measurement of light.
  • English Word Photometry Definition That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.
  • English Word Photomicrograph Definition An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a microscopic object. See Microphotograph.
  • English Word Photomicrograph Definition A microscopically small photograph of an object.
  • English Word Photomicrography Definition The art of producing photomicrographs.
  • English Word Photophobia Definition A dread or intolerance of light.
  • English Word Photophone Definition An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of rays of light.
  • English Word Photophonic Definition Of or pertaining to photophone.
  • English Word Photophony Definition The art or practice of using the photophone.
  • English Word Photopsia Definition An affection of the eye, in which the patient perceives luminous rays, flashes, coruscations, etc. See phosphene.