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Etymology

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photo- +‎ counter

Noun

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photocounter (plural photocounters)

  1. A device that counts photons.
    • 2015, Elvira Di Nardo, “On photon statistics parametrized by a non-central Wishart random matrix”, in arXiv[1]:
      Generalized complete Bell polynomials are used in order to compute joint moments and joint cumulants of multivariate photocounters.