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Absorptance

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Noun

1. absorptance, absorption coefficient, coefficient of absorption

a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber

Example Sentences:
'absorptance equals 1 minus transmittance'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Absorptance

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noun
physics
a measure of the ability of an object to absorb radiation, equal to the ratio of the absorbed radiant flux to the incident flux. For a layer of material the ratio of the flux absorbed between the entry and exit surfaces of the layer to the flux leaving the entry surface is the internal absorptance
. Symbol: α Compare reflectance, transmittance

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Absorptance

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n.
The ratio of the radiation absorbed by a surface to the radiation incident to it.

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