photometer
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- n measuring instrument for measuring the luminous intensity of a source by comparing it (visually or photoelectrically) with a standard source
- n photographic equipment that measures the intensity of light
- It was a dummy ultraviolet light photometer.
- This unpleasant news was first uncovered last spring when Birmingham's city analyst, armed with a new $1,400 spectro-photometer, began testing vitamin products taken from the .
- Cooper took photometer readings of stars to measure the extent to which his window attenuates light.