radiometer
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ra·di·om·e·ter
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Definition of radiometer
: an instrument for detecting and usually for measuring the intensity of radiant energy
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Other Words from radiometer
radiometry
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Examples of radiometer in a Sentence
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Data from aircraft radiometers, which infer surface wind speed from above by looking at the state of the sea surface. — Adam Sobel, New York Times, "What Will Turn Hurricane Dorian? How Wide Is the Eye? Your Questions Answered.," 1 Sep. 2019 In addition to its weighted arm for hopping, MASCOT had a camera, a magnetometer, a radiometer, and infrared spectrometer. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Tiny robot finds an asteroid that’s freakishly free of dust," 22 Aug. 2019 In 1879, another titan of science, the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, pointed out that the Navier-Stokes equations fail to explain a near-vacuum experiment called the Crookes radiometer — apparently unbeknownst to Hilbert. — Quanta Magazine, "Famous Fluid Equations Are Incomplete," 21 July 2015 In 1879, Maxwell attempted to describe the turning vanes of the Crookes radiometer by modeling the thin air inside the vacuum chamber as a fluid. — Quanta Magazine, "Famous Fluid Equations Are Incomplete," 21 July 2015 The lander was carrying four experiments: the MASCAM camera and a radiometer, both made by the DLR; a magnetometer built by the Technical University of Braunschweig; and an infrared spectrometer made by the French space agency, CNES. — Megan Gannon, Space.com, "'Crazy' Rocky Surface of Asteroid Ryugu Revealed in MASCOT Lander Images," 13 Oct. 2018 The data from the dropsondes is combined with data collected by a device fixed below the right wing called a stepped frequency microwave radiometer, or SFMR, which gauges storm intensity by converting surface brightness into wind speed. — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, "In a Plane, Flying Through the Eye of Hurricane Florence," 13 Sep. 2018 Each radiometer is assigned a different wavelength and a different region of Jupiter's vast atmosphere. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is 50 Times Deeper Than the Oceans of Earth," 12 Dec. 2017 Now all the data—radar, radiometer, dropsonde—is right in front of him. — Bucky Mcmahon, Popular Mechanics, "What's it like to fly a plane into a hurricane like Irma? We climbed into a NOAA plane in 2016 and flew into the heart of Hurricane Matthew to find out.," 8 Sep. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'radiometer.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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