noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The science of measuring colours and assigning them numeric values. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter wordnet
3. 3
   Analysis involving the quantitative measurement of colour. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms

colorimetric analysisspectrometryspectroscopytintometry

Etymology

From color + -metry.

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