Get to know Radiometer better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like meter.
Radiometer meaning
A device that measures radiant energy.
Synonyms of Radiometer
Using Radiometer
- The main meaning on this page is: A device that measures radiant energy.
- Useful related words include: meter.
- In the example corpus, radiometer often appears in combinations such as: infrared radiometer, the radiometer, microwave radiometer.
Context around Radiometer
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Radiometer
- In this selection, "radiometer" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, infrared, microwave, parabolic, reference, antenna and detected stand out and add context to how "radiometer" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the radiometer reference horns and diameter parabolic radiometer antenna mounted. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "radiometer" sits close to words such as abdulai, abhinandan and abhor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with radiometer
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mission objectives The scientific objectives were: * Radiometer experiment. (8 words)
The radiometer provided data on the temperatures of Jupiter's atmosphere and satellites. (13 words)
The Crookes radiometer turns when the MFP is larger than the size of the vanes. (15 words)
The first experiment to test this theory was done by Arthur Schuster in 1876, who observed that there was a force on the glass bulb of the Crookes radiometer that was in the opposite direction to the rotation of the vanes. (41 words)
Finally, if light pressure were the motive force, the radiometer would spin in the opposite direction, as the photons on the shiny side being reflected would deposit more momentum than on the black side where the photons are absorbed. (39 words)
The high electrical fields generated inside a microwave often can be illustrated by placing a radiometer or neon glow-bulb inside the cooking chamber, creating glowing plasma inside the low-pressure bulb of the device. (35 words)
Example sentences (18)
A microwave radiometer and an infrared radiometer and the radiometer reference horns were rigidly mounted to a convert diameter parabolic radiometer antenna mounted near the bottom of the mast.
The microwave radiometer, the infrared radiometer and the radiometer reference horns were rigidly mounted to a 48 cm diameter parabolic radiometer antenna mounted near the bottom of the mast.
The limb darkening effect that the microwave radiometer detected was also present in the measurements by both channels of the infrared radiometer.
A new kind of instrument for deep-space planetary exploration, Juno’s Microwave Radiometer (MWR) observes Jupiter from above using six antennas that measure the atmospheric temperature at multiple depths simultaneously.
Net radiometer, photoactive radiation sensors, rain samplers, CO2 gas systems, carbon flux sensors, tipping buckets…and the list goes on.
Sitting three meters above the ice, the radiometer will take samples every few seconds, he said.
The water-stressed areas of the forest look as green and healthy as these cooler areas, making them invisible except to a radiometer that can measure thermal infrared energy from the surface.
At these very high vacuums the effect of photon radiation pressure on the vanes can be observed in very sensitive apparatus (see Nichols radiometer ) but this is insufficient to cause rotation.
Finally, if light pressure were the motive force, the radiometer would spin in the opposite direction, as the photons on the shiny side being reflected would deposit more momentum than on the black side where the photons are absorbed.
Mission objectives The scientific objectives were: * Radiometer experiment.
Movement with black-body radiation When the radiometer is heated in the absence of a light source, it turns in the forward direction (i.e. black sides trailing).
The Crookes radiometer turns when the MFP is larger than the size of the vanes.
The first experiment to test this theory was done by Arthur Schuster in 1876, who observed that there was a force on the glass bulb of the Crookes radiometer that was in the opposite direction to the rotation of the vanes.
The high electrical fields generated inside a microwave often can be illustrated by placing a radiometer or neon glow-bulb inside the cooking chamber, creating glowing plasma inside the low-pressure bulb of the device.
The Infrared Radiometer (IRR) team was led by Professor Gerald Neugebauer from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
The infrared radiometer showed that the 8.4 μm and 10.4 μm radiation temperatures were in agreement with radiation temperatures obtained from Earth-based measurements.
The radiometer provided data on the temperatures of Jupiter's atmosphere and satellites.
This is a broadband infrared radiometer with sensitivity for infrared radiation between approximately 4.5 µm and 50 µm.
Common combinations with radiometer
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: