Crossword-Solution: ALBEDO
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Albedo | n. | Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface. |
Anagrams
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| ALBEDO | anagram | DOABLE |
We have 22 clues for the answer “ALBEDO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Planetary reflected-light ratio | 1 answer |
| Whitish inner part of an orange's rind | 1 answer |
| The portion of light shining on a surface that is reflected by it | 1 answer |
| Reflectivity measure | 1 answer |
| Reflective power, as of a planet | 1 answer |
| Reflective power in space | 1 answer |
| Reflective power | 1 answer |
| Reflection ratio. in astronomy | 1 answer |
| Reflecting power of a planet | 1 answer |
| Ratio of planetary reflectiveness | 1 answer |
| Planetary reflectivity measure | 1 answer |
| Astronomer's light ratio | 1 answer |
| Planetary light-reflection ratio | 1 answer |
| Measure of reflected light | 1 answer |
| Measure of a planet's reflectivity | 1 answer |
| Light reflection ratio | 1 answer |
| Light ratio in astronomy | 1 answer |
| LIGHT falling upon a surface or body that is reflected, fraction of the | 1 answer |
| Inner rind | 1 answer |
| Concept in astronomy | 1 answer |
| Body's reflectivity | 1 answer |
| BE REFLECTED AS HEAT, SOUND, OR LIGHT OR SHOCK WAVES | 10 answers |
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Sentences with ALBEDO (5)
The electron telescope could detect its larger planets, especially a gas-giant fifth-orbit world of high albedo.
Terra was eight thousand two hundred miles in diameter, with a fairly clear atmosphere and a varying albedo which indicated clouds in the atmosphere.
How comes it then that Field makes humanity, in the abstract, to have a subsistence? Antonius Sadeel censures Turrianus(733) for saying that _albedo cum pariete, idem est atque paries albus_: his reason is, because _albedo dicitur __ esse, non cum pariete sed in pariete._ An abstract is no more an abstract if it have a subsistence.
The telescopes showed Sennech's albedo down to a fraction of normal; that, he supposed, would indicate smoke in the atmosphere.
And we find, accordingly, from a combination of Zöllner's with Müller's results, that its albedo is but little inferior to that of new-fallen snow; in other words, it gives back 77 per cent.
Quotes with ALBEDO (3)
The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,” he said in that dry factual tone, and everyone stared at him amazed. “Without the human presence it is just a collection of atoms, no different than any other random speck of matter in the universe. It’s we who understand it, and we who give it meaning. All our centuries of looking up at the night sky and watching it wander through the stars. All those nights of watching it through the telescopes, looking at a tiny disk trying to …
There is no limit on the level that the reflections can be at and in a modern environment, such as a city, the albedo can increase the power levels many times of the sky based solar radiation of direct and diffuse combined. The trees prevent the albedo reflections from occurring.
When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 29 times in crossword archives (1983–2024).