WOLF NUMBER


Meaning of WOLF NUMBER in English

/woolf/ ; Fr. /vawlf/ , Astron.

a number indicating the degree of sunspot activity on the sun as a factor of observer idiosyncrasies, the number of sunspot groups, and the number of individual sunspots. Also called relative sunspot number, sunspot number .

[ 1975-80; after Rudolf Wolf (1816-93), Swiss astronomer ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .