Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

microfadeometer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mi-cro-fadeome-ter
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A device which focuses a bright light on a small part of a painting in order to measure how much it fades

Example Sentences

"This includes an infrared spectroscope that has been used to figure out the chemical fingerprints of things as varied as asteroids and illegal drugs; a device called a microfadeometer, which trains an intense beam of light — 8 million lumens per square meter, compared with about 120,000 for a cloudless day with the sun at high noon — on a tiny area of a painting to see how it fades; a hulking Atlas Ci4000 Xenon Weather-Ometer, which simulates the effects of decades of sunlight and heat in just months; and a scanning electron microscope costing more than a million dollars."

Etymology

From micro- + fadeometer.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: micro

Inflected Forms

microfadeometers (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

microfadeometry

Questions

What does microfadeometer mean?: A device which focuses a bright light on a small part of a painting in order to measure how much it fades
Where does microfadeometer come from?: From micro- + fadeometer.

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