radiometer
IPA: reɪdiˈɑmʌtɝ
noun
- A device that measures radiant energy.
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Examples of "radiometer" in Sentences
- Another radiometer instrument was also able to take measurements during the eclipse.
- The device, called a radiometer, is based on a classical light-powered, rotating vane most often seen in mall novelty stores.
- By spending a few extra days in the inner belt the MEGS-P radiometer was able to measure a more complete picture of the radiation belt.
- Senator Obama has shown himself to be the embodiment of a solar radiometer: The more heat and light (scrutiny) he gets, the faster he spins.
- The radiometer keeps me grounded in reality, a testament to my fascination with how things work, the practicalities and realities of the physical world.
- The eclipse was also detected by the Proba-2's LYRA Lyman Alpha Radiometer instrument, the first ultraviolet radiometer in space that employs diamond detectors.
- They are part of my fascination with the supernatural, the otherworldly, the dark and sinister, in contrast to the radiometer, which is of the material world, and which relies on the light, rather than dark.
- Behind them, an angle-poise lamp (with low energy lightbulb to salve my eco-conscience), a Beanie Baby skeleton called Creepers (my NaNoWriMo mascot from last year), small plush Cthulhu toy, a Crookes radiometer and the latest addition to my desk, a large gargoyle candle stick.
- A few years ago, Professor Crookes, of London, having observed that light pith balls delicately suspended in a vacuous tube were under certain conditions repelled by the sun's rays, was led on from step to step until he had constructed the instrument now so well known as the radiometer, in which a delicate wheel is rapidly turned by the rays of the sun, or by the rays of any source of bright light, shining on its blackened vanes.
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