Definition of "colorimetry" []

• The science of measuring colours and assigning them numeric values. (noun)
• Analysis involving the quantitative measurement of colour. (noun)

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• "Page 418, Volume 3 physicists from the eighteenth to the twentieth century was the emergence of two new sciences; photometry and colorimetry, both arising with the evident purpose of measuring light first and color afterward."
• "The important principles around which practically all quantitative methods may be grouped are: Neutralization, solubility-product, oxidation-reduction, colorimetry, and evolution and measurement of gases."
• "Brief reviews of photometry, colorimetry, and brightness perception are presented as a foundation for the discussion of circadian light."