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A detector that measures incident radiation through the heating it produces, often by measuring a resulting electrical change.
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- a sensitive bolometer
- bolometer readings
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The bolometer recorded a faint rise after the shutter opened.
They compared the bolometer readings with the background measurements.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular bolometer; plural bolometers. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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