Usually means: Reflection ratio of sunlight, surfaces.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. albedo: Merriam-Webster
  2. albedo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. albedo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. albedo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. albedo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Albedo, albedo: Wordnik
  7. albedo: Wiktionary
  8. albedo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. albedo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. albedo: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. albedo: Dictionary.com
  12. albedo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Albedo (alchemy), Albedo (disambiguation), Albedo (role-playing game), Albedo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Albedo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. albedo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. albedo: Rhymezone
  17. Albedo, albedo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. albedo: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. albedo: FreeDictionary.org
  20. albedo: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. albedo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. albedo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. albedo: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. albedo: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. albedo: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. albedo: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. albedo: A Word A Day
  2. albedo: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Albedo: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Mars Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Albedo: Extragalactic Astronomy
  6. albedo: Nine Planets Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Albedo: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. albedo: Lighting Design Glossary
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. JPL Terms (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (albedo)

noun:  (physics, meteorology, astronomy, optics) The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body, commonly expressed as a percentage.
noun:  (botany) The whitish inner portion of the rind of citrus fruits that is a source of pectin, commonly referred to as the pith.
noun:  (alchemy) One of the four major stages of the magnum opus, involving purification of the prima materia.

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