Synonyms for reflectance
rɪˈflɛk tənsre·flectance

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1. coefficient of reflection, reflection factor, reflectance, reflectivitynoun

   the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface

   Synonyms:
   reflection factor, reflectiveness, reflexion, reflectivity, coefficient of reflection, reflection

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How to use reflectance in a sentence?

1. Alon Gorodetsky:

   We've developed stickers for use as a thin, flexible layer of camo with the potential to take on a pattern that will better match the soldiers' infrared reflectance to their background and hide them from active infrared visualization.

2. Raymond Soneira:

   One challenging issue has always been switching from a rigid and hard cover glass protecting the current smartphones to a flexible and durable plastic cover protecting the flexible display, it needs to have superior optical properties and low reflectance like glass, and then also survive 50,000 or more opening and closing cycles.

3. Philip Goode:

   Off the west coast of the South America, the low-lying clouds were burned away and more sunlight came in, so the way we saw it was, the reflectance of The Earth had dropped.

4. Jay Neitz:

   Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance, but I’ve studied individual differences in color vision for 30 years, and this is one of the biggest individual differences I’ve ever seen.

5. Philip Goode:

   When we analyzed the last three years of data, it looked different, the reflectance had gone down and had gone down noticeably. So we thought we had done something wrong. So we redid it several times and it turns out it was correct.