See Also: absinthiate(medicine)
talbot(dictionary)
Talbot(medicine)
Talbot's law(dictionary)
Talbot (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Plateau-Talbot law(medicine)
Talbot Hospital(health)
Talbot, William Henry Fox(encyclopedia)
Talbot, William Henry Fox(dictionary)
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Talbot's law (iou) and absinthiate (medicine)


Talbot's law (iou)



Talbot's law noun phr. E20.
[from William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77), English photographer and polymath.]
Optics. The law that a flickering source of light, varying in either colour or intensity, will be perceived as a constant light source exhibiting the mean value of the varying quantity, provided that the frequency of flickering exceeds the flicker fusion frequency of the eye. Also more fully Talbot-Plateau law [Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (1801-83), Belgian physicist].

absinthiate (medicine)


absinthiate


To impregnate with wormwood.

Origin: From L. Absinthium: cf. L. Absinthiatus, a.

Source: Websters Dictionary