reflectivity

Other forms of reflectivity

plural

reflectivities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reflectivity

What does reflectivity mean?

reflectivity means "the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reflectivity?

reflectivity has 5 syllables: re-flec-ti-vi-ty. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for reflectivity?

Close synonyms include coefficient of reflection, reflection factor, reflectance, reflection, reflexion. 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 reflectivity a common word?

reflectivity 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.