English Explanatory Dictionary

optical depth

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The natural logarithm of the ratio of amount of radiation that hits an object to the amount of radiation that emerges from that object on the other side.

Word forms

optical depth optical depths

Synonyms

optical thickness
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