Unified Astronomy Thesaurus

Last uploaded: June 20, 2024
Preferred Name

Extinction

Definitions

Dimming of light by an intervening medium (the Earth's atmosphere or the interstellar medium). It is usually due to both scattering and absorption.

ID

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/505

broader

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/88

contributor

http://editor.vocabs.ands.org.au/user/AAS_Frey.Katie

definition

Dimming of light by an intervening medium (the Earth's atmosphere or the interstellar medium). It is usually due to both scattering and absorption.

modified

2020-11-03T21:08:10.240Z

2020-11-03T21:08:22.814Z

narrower

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1377

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/841

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/114

prefLabel

Extinction

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