absorbance

or ab·sorb·an·cy

[ab-sawr-buh ns or ab-sawr-buh n-see; -zawr-]

noun Physics.

the capacity of a substance to absorb radiation, expressed as the common logarithm of the reciprocal of the transmittance of the substance.

Origin of absorbance

First recorded in 1945–50; absorb(ent) + -ance

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British Dictionary definitions for absorbance

absorbance

noun

physics a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittanceSee transmittance

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absorbance in Medicine

absorbance

[əb-zôr′bəns]

n.

In spectrophotometry, equal to 2 minus the log of the percentage transmittance of light.extinction optical density