albedo

From Latin albēdō (“whiteness”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ælˈbi.doʊ/

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• Hyphenation: al‧be‧do

albedo (countable and uncountable, plural albedos or albedoes)

1. (physics, meteorology, astronomy, optics) The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body, commonly expressed as a percentage.
   • 2022 August 10, Gareth Dennis, “How can we run trains when the heat is on?”, in RAIL, number 963, page 45:

     For track, painting rails white at weak points that are more prone to buckling (where the 'critical rail temperature' is close to the 'stress free temperature' [...]) increases their albedo and can help slow how quickly they heat up, reducing their temperature by perhaps five degrees or so.

2. (botany) The whitish inner portion of the rind of citrus fruits that is a source of pectin, commonly referred to as the pith.
3. (alchemy) One of the four major stages of the magnum opus, involving purification of the prima materia.

   Coordinate terms: nigredo, citrinitas, rubedo

Albedo is to be distinguished from reflectivity, which refers to one specific wavelength (monochromatic radiation).

• albedo feature

• “albedo”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• beload, doable

Derived from Latin albēdō (“whiteness”).

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• IPA^(key): [alˈbedo]
• Rhymes: -edo
• Hyphenation: al‧be‧do

albedo (accusative singular albedon, plural albedoj, accusative plural albedojn)

1. (physics) albedo

Learned borrowing from Latin albēdō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlbedo/, [ˈɑlbe̞do̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlbedo
• Syllabification^(key): al‧be‧do

albedo

1. albedo

• albedine

Borrowed from Late Latin albēdō.

albedo f (invariable)

1. albedo (all senses)

• albedo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From alb(us) (“white”) +‎ -ēdō (abstract noun suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /alˈbeː.doː/, [äɫ̪ˈbeːd̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /alˈbe.do/, [älˈbɛːd̪o]

albēdō f (genitive albēdinis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) white (color)
2. (Late Latin) whiteness

   Synonyms: albitūdō, albor, album

Third-declension noun.

• Italian: albedine
• Spanish: albédine
• → Catalan: albedo
• → English: albedo
  • → Japanese: アルベド (arubedo)
• Esperanto: albedo
• → French: albédo
  • → Romanian: albedo
• → German: Albedo
• → Italian: albedo
• → Polish: albedo
• → Portuguese: albedo
• → Russian: альбе́до (alʹbédo)
• → Spanish: albedo

• “albedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• albedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Borrowed from Latin albēdō.[1][2] First attested in 1908.[3][4]

• IPA^(key): /alˈbɛ.dɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdɔ
• Syllabification: al‧be‧do

albedo n (indeclinable)

1. (physics, meteorology, astronomy, optics) albedo (fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body)

   niskie/małe albedo ― a low albedo

   wysokie albedo ― a high albedo

   ziemskie albedo/albedo Ziemi ― the albedo of the Earth

   albedo wynosi ileś ― an albedo reaches/is/amounts

   albedo neutronów ― the albedo of neutrons

   albedo powierzchni ― the albedo of a surface

   albedo planety ― the albedo of a planet

   albedo śniegu ― the albedo of a snow

   wartość albedo ― the value of an albedo

   wielkości albedo ― the magnitude of an albedo

2. (botany) albedo (part of citrus fruit rind)

• Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎, Wydawnictwo PWN

• albedo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• albedo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

albedo m (plural albedos)

1. (physics, meteorology, astronomy) albedo (the fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body)

From French albédo.

albedo n (uncountable)

1. albedo

From Latin albēdō.

• IPA^(key): /alˈbedo/ [alˈβ̞e.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -edo
• Syllabification: al‧be‧do

albedo m (plural albedos)

1. (physics, meteorology, astronomy) albedo (the fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body)

• “albedo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014