absorbance

Questions about absorbance

What does absorbance mean?

absorbance means "(physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation".

How many syllables are in absorbance?

absorbance has 3 syllables and divides as ab-sor-bance under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for absorbance?

Close synonyms include optical density, transmission density, photographic density. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is absorbance a common word?

absorbance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.