absorbance

Questions about absorbance

What is another word for absorbance?

It depends which absorbance you mean. In the sense “(physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation”, the synonyms are optical density, transmission density, photographic density. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of absorbance?

WordNet records no antonym for absorbance. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for absorbance come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of absorbance

• Full entry for absorbanceAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for absorbanceWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.