sensitometer
(noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the light sensitivity of film over a range of exposures
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sensitometer (plural sensitometers)
(photography) An instrument used to measure the sensitivity of photographic film to light.
• tensiometers
Source: Wiktionary
Sen`si*tom"e*ter, n. [See Sensitive; -meter.] (Photog.)
Definition: An instrument or apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 June 2025
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
