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 analysisspectrometryspectroscopy

Etymology

From color + -metry.