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characteristic curve

noun

  1. Photography. a graph used in sensitometry to show the relationship between exposure time and image density under constant developing conditions.


characteristic curve

noun

  1. photog a graph of the density of a particular photographic material plotted against the logarithm of the exposure producing this density
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of characteristic curve1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

The scientists did not give the program, called a neural network, explicit instructions to find the characteristic curves of an exoplanet.

He ascertained that there was a complete correspondence between the sensitiveness of the tubes used as telegraphic instruments and the form of the characteristic curve of current and voltage drawn by the above-described method.

And yet—and yet Ethelred P. Wyndhurst was like Isaac—that characteristic curve of the nose, those thick eyebrows!

Receiver operator characteristic curves for GO terms with predicted new members and area-under-the-curve statistics.

The geometrical interpretation of this condition is that the straight line LM must, at the point where it cuts the characteristic curve, be steeper than the tangent to characteristic curve.

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