ASTM E284-00

ASTM E284-00 - 10.1.2002

1. Scope

1.1 This terminology standard defines terms used in the description of appearance, including but not limited to color, gloss, opacity, scattering, texture, and visibility of both materials (ordinary, fluorescent, retroreflective) and light sources (including visual display units).

1.2 It is the policy of ASTM Committee E12 on Appearance that this terminology standard include important terms and definitions explicit to the scope, whether or not the terms are currently used in an ASTM standard. Terms that are in common use and appear in common-language dictionaries (see Refs (1-4)) are generally not included, except when the dictionaries show multiple definitions and it seems desirable to indicate the definitions recommended for E12 standards.

1.3 The usage of terms describing appearance varies considerably. In some cases, different usage of a term in different fields has been noted.

2. Referenced Documents

D1695-07(2019)	Standard Terminology of Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives
D1129-13(2020)e2	Standard Terminology Relating to Water (Includes all amendments and changes 2/14/2024).
D1245-17	Standard Practice for Examination of Water-Formed Deposits by Chemical Microscopy
D1535-14(2023)	Standard Practice for Specifying Color by the Munsell System
D1003-21	Standard Test Method for Haze and Luminous Transmittance of Transparent Plastics
D883-24	Standard Terminology Relating to Plastics
D1889-00	Standard Test Method for Turbidity of Water (Withdrawn 2007)
E809-21	Standard Practice for Measuring Photometric Characteristics of Retroreflectors
E903-20	Standard Test Method for Solar Absorptance, Reflectance, and Transmittance of Materials Using Integrating Spheres
E1164-23	Standard Practice for Obtaining Spectrometric Data for Object-Color Evaluation
E1767-11(2022)	Standard Practice for Specifying the Geometries of Observation and Measurement to Characterize the Appearance of Materials
E2175-01(2021)	Standard Practice for Specifying the Geometry of Multiangle Spectrophotometers
E2214-23	Standard Practice for Specifying and Verifying the Performance of Color-Measuring Instruments
F923-00	Standard Guide to Properties of High Visibility Materials Used to Improve Individual Safety (Withdrawn 2006)
D2805-11(2023)	Standard Test Method for Hiding Power of Paints by Reflectometry
E131-10(2023)	Standard Terminology Relating to Molecular Spectroscopy
E135-23a	Standard Terminology Relating to Analytical Chemistry for Metals, Ores, and Related Materials (Includes all amendments and changes 7/17/2023).
E179-17(2022)	Standard Guide for Selection of Geometric Conditions for Measurement of Reflection and Transmission Properties of Materials
E313-20	Standard Practice for Calculating Yellowness and Whiteness Indices from Instrumentally Measured Color Coordinates
E349-06(2019)e1	Standard Terminology Relating to Space Simulation (Includes all amendments and changes 11/1/2019).
E456-13a(2022)	Standard Terminology Relating to Quality and Statistics (Includes all amendments and changes 4/21/2022).
E491-73(2020)	Standard Practice for Solar Simulation for Thermal Balance Testing of Spacecraft
E808-23	Standard Practice for Describing Retroreflection
C242-21	Standard Terminology of Ceramic Whitewares and Related Products
C286-22	Standard Terminology Relating to Porcelain Enamel and Ceramic-Metal Systems
C460-93	Standard Terminology for Asbestos-Cement (Withdrawn 2001)
D16-24	Standard Terminology for Paint, Related Coatings, Materials, and Applications
D123-23	Standard Terminology Relating to Textiles
D156-23	Standard Test Method for Saybolt Color of Petroleum Products (Saybolt Chromometer Method)