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Discover LudwigThe word “colorimetry” is correct and usable in written English
You would use it in any context where you discuss the measurement of color. For example, you could say: "The artist used colorimetry to accurately measure the composition of the colors in her painting."
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colorimetry
noun
The science of measuring colours and assigning them numeric values.
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In colorimetry, frequently the entire visible spectrum (white light) is used, and consequently the complementary colour of the one absorbed is observed as transmitted light.
In daily practice, colorimetry and polarography (a method based on the response of electric current to a steadily increasing electromotive force applied to a solution) are widely used but are being rapidly replaced by other techniques of greater rapidity, simplicity, or accuracy.
One type of color space is dealt with in the field of colorimetry, which is a branch of color science concerned with 'measuring' color, which means specifying numerically the color of visual stimulus (either a light or an object).
Colorimetry, measurement of the wavelength and the intensity of electromagnetic radiation in the visible region of the spectrum.
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