photographic density

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsoptical densitytransmission densityabsorbance

   Broaderdensity

   physics

Questions about photographic density

What does photographic density mean?

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

What is another word for photographic density?

Close synonyms include optical density, transmission density, absorbance. 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 photographic density a common word?

photographic density 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.