Scheiner speed in English

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "The system was devised by the German astronomer Julius Scheiner in 1894.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Scheiner speeds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Scheiner speed (plural Scheiner speeds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The speed (expressed in degrees) of a plate used for astronomical photography, rated by the least exposure required to produce a visible darkening upon development."
      ],
      "id": "en-Scheiner_speed-en-noun-itFjdrJG",
      "links": [
        [
          "speed",
          "speed"
        ],
        [
          "degree",
          "degree"
        ],
        [
          "plate",
          "plate"
        ],
        [
          "astronomical",
          "astronomical"
        ],
        [
          "photography",
          "photography"
        ],
        [
          "exposure",
          "exposure"
        ],
        [
          "visible",
          "visible"
        ],
        [
          "darkening",
          "darkening"
        ],
        [
          "development",
          "development"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Scheiner speed"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "The system was devised by the German astronomer Julius Scheiner in 1894.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Scheiner speeds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Scheiner speed (plural Scheiner speeds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The speed (expressed in degrees) of a plate used for astronomical photography, rated by the least exposure required to produce a visible darkening upon development."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speed",
          "speed"
        ],
        [
          "degree",
          "degree"
        ],
        [
          "plate",
          "plate"
        ],
        [
          "astronomical",
          "astronomical"
        ],
        [
          "photography",
          "photography"
        ],
        [
          "exposure",
          "exposure"
        ],
        [
          "visible",
          "visible"
        ],
        [
          "darkening",
          "darkening"
        ],
        [
          "development",
          "development"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Scheiner speed"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (d9fa233 and 9e92f4b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"Scheiner speed" meaning in English

Noun