Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A spectroscope equipped with scales for measuring wavelengths or indexes of refraction.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An instrument used chiefly to measure the angular deviation of light-rays in passing through a prism, and hence to determine the refractive indices of the substance of which the prism is formed. Its esseutial parts are— a tube B (see figure), having a slit at the further end through which the light is thrown by the mirror M, and a collimating lens at the other end to convert the divergent pencil into a parallel beam;
Wiktionary
- n. analytical chemistry An optical instrument for measuring the absorption of light by chemical substances; typically it will plot a graph of absorption versus wavelength or frequency, and the patterns produced are used to identify the substances present, and their internal structure.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physics) A spectroscope fitted for measurements of the luminious spectra observed with it.
WordNet 3.0
- n. spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer
Etymologies
- spectro- + -meter (Wiktionary)
Examples
“One of the things they use to help analyze this is something we call the spectrometer and what this basically does is measures wavelengths of light.”
“That afternoon I was ferried to the mountaintop and introduced to the telescopes and the spectrometer, which is affixed to the base of the big mirror like an oversize parasite to its host.”
“The spectrometer is a large particle physics experiment package that is expected to shed light on the nature and evolution of the universe.”
USA Today: Space shuttle Endeavour rolls out to launch pad for the last time
“Chamitoff said Endeavour was the first shuttle to bring a piece of the space station into space, and now it is going to carry up the spectrometer, which is the station's final major piece of external hardware.”
Voice of America: Shuttle Endeavour's Mission and the Seach for Origins of Universe
“He does chemical analysis on athletes using an ICP spectrometer, which is used in a variety of fields.”
“Hi clament, the water is detected by a device called a spectrometer google this for more information, one of astronomy's best tools and shown on the graphs below the picture.”
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“Sitting on the shelf opposite the spectrometer was a three-inch binder of red vinyl.”
“At the heart of the spectrometer is a 3-foot, doughnut-shaped magnet.”
“First, a prism can be used to make a spectrometer, which is a device for examining the intensity of”
“An instrument on Spitzer called a spectrometer analyzed light from one of the jets, revealing information about its molecules.”
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Interesting words
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measure for measure
Things that can be used to measure other things.
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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My Modern Job in the Past
Words I come across at work.
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