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Reflecting power of a planet
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albedo
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Word definitions for albedo in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ratio of light reflected from a surface," 1859, from Latin albedo , literally "whiteness," from albus "white" (see alb ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Albedo is a measure of reflectivity. Albedo may also refer to: ALBEDO Telecom , a telecom company Albedo (alchemy) , a stage of alchemical progression Albedo (Ben 10) , a character in the television series Ben 10: Alien Force'' Albedo Anthropomorphics , ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Albedo \Al*be"do\, n. [L., fr. albus white.] Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.
Usage examples of albedo.
Councillor Albedo meets with no one except His Holiness and Lourdusamy.
Instead of answering, Albedo took an aggressive step closer to the CEO.
Finished with cycling the air-lock combination, Councillor Albedo tapped at the invisible key in his palm once again.
Only Albedo stayed with the Pope as His Holiness walked into the room, allowing the kissing of his ring and touching the heads of the gathered men and women as they knelt again.
Finally His Holiness, Pope Urban XVI, took his seat in the straight-backed throne with Albedo standing behind him.
Cardinal Mustafa, Cardinal Du Noyer, CEO Isozaki, and Councillor Albedo before concluding this business.
Councillor Albedo stepped to the edge of the low dais and began to speak.
Councillor Albedo, pacing back and forth in front of the altar once again.
Here Councillor Albedo quit pacing and stood directly in front of the altar.
The cardinals and Councillor Albedo and the Core wanted her to escape.
Now the pale-faced female paused and looked to Albedo for instructions.
Cardinal Mustafa, Cardinal Lourdusamy, and Monsignor Oddi were looking at Councillor Albedo most attentively, but their holographic fingers were touching their holographic chests.
Some of the characters in my tale are present in the Void Which Bind largely as scars, holes, vacancies -- the Nemes creatures are such vacuums, as are Councillor Albedo and the other Core entities -- but I was able to track some of the movements and actions of these beings simply by the movement of that vacancy through the matrix of sentient emotion that was the Void, much as one would see the outline of an invisible man in a hard rain.
Sandi Thiaput at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, had made several measurements of the Martian albedo for another project the previous year and Sandi e-mailed the raw and post-processed data to him.
And most of all, it must be highly polished for the albedo to be that high.