albedo

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *albhós Proto-Italic *alβos Latin alb(us) Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder. Latin -ēdō Latin albēdōbor. English albedo Borrowed from Latin albēdō (“whiteness”).

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عَاكِسِيَّة (ʕākisiyya) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Arabic: وَضَاءَة (waḍāʔa) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Catalan: albedo — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Chinese Mandarin: 反照率 (fǎnzhàolǜ) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Esperanto: albedo — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Finnish: heijastussuhde — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• French: albédo — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• German: Albedo — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Greek: άλβεδό (álvedó) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Hindi: धवलता (dhavaltā) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Hindi: प्रकाशानुपात (prakāśānupāt) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Inuktitut: ᖃᐅᒪᓂᖅ ᒪᓂᕋᒥᙶᖅᑐᖅ — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Italian: albedo — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Japanese: 反射能 (hanshanō) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Japanese: アルベド (arubedo) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Korean: 반사율 (bansayul) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Korean: 알베도 (albedo) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Malay: albedo — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Persian: سپیدایی (sepidâyi) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Polish: albedo — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Portuguese: albedo — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Romanian: albedo — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Russian: альбе́до (alʹbédo) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Spanish: albedo — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Tamil: எதிரொளிதிறன் (etiroḷitiṟaṉ) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Tamil: வெண் எகிர்சிதறல் (veṇ ekircitaṟal) — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Turkish: yansıtabilirlik — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Vietnamese: suất phản chiếu — fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body
• Finnish: aluskuori — part of citrus fruit rind
• French: ziste — part of citrus fruit rind
• French: albédo — part of citrus fruit rind
• Korean: 귤락 (gyullak) — part of citrus fruit rind
• Occitan: albedo — part of citrus fruit rind
• Polish: albedo — part of citrus fruit rind
• Portuguese: medula — part of citrus fruit rind