Albedo

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

← Albe × Albee →

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albedo
albēdo, ĭnis, f. [albus], white color , whiteness; only in eccl. Lat.; Sev. Sulp. H. Sacr. 1, 16...

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