densitometer meaning

• Noun: densitometer  `densi'tómitu(r)
  1. A measuring instrument for determining optical or photographic density 
  2. A measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity
     - densimeter

  Derived forms: densitometers

  Type of: measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system

  Encyclopedia: Densitometer

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  [Electronics]
  An instrument for measuring the density of a body.
  
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  [Engineering]
  "An instrument which measures optical density by measuring the intensity of transmitted or reflected light, used to measure photographic density."
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  [Medicine]
  n
  1 : DENSIMETER
  2 : an instrument for determining optical or photographic density — den·si·to·met·ric adj — den·si·tom·e·try n pl -tries
  

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Examples

1. mass flow information can be secured by using a densitometer.
2. the zero point of the density scale is defined by having no specimen in the densitometer.
3. after processing, the sensitometrically exposed step wedge is read on a densitometer and the data is plotted.
4. the results from the pollen densitometers indicate the number of pollen grains sucked into a device per square millimeter of the aperture.
5. the setup densitometer lamp must be replaced