Absorptivity
the property of a body that determines the fraction of incident radiation or by the body.
noun
(physics) a measure of the ability of a material to absorb radiation, equal to the internal absorptance of a h-m-geneous layer of the material under conditions in which the path of the radiation has unit length and the boundaries of the layer have no influence
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