spectrometer

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spectrometer

Wikipedia

Etymology

From spectro- +‎ -meter.

Pronunciation

• enPR: spĕk-trŏm′ĭ-tər
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtɹɒm.ɪ.tə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtɹɑm.ɪ.təɹ/

  Audio (US):

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtɹɒm.ɪ.təɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /spekˈtɹɔm.ɪ.tə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /spekˈtɹɔm.ə.tɐ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtɹɔm.ɪ.təɹ/
• (India) IPA^(key): /spekˈʈɾɒm.i.ʈəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: spec‧trom‧e‧ter

Noun

spectrometer (plural spectrometers)

2. (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.

Derived terms

• mass spectrometer
• X-ray spectrometer

Related terms

• spectrometric
• spectrometry

Translations

instrument for measuring the absorption of light by chemical substances

Bengali: বর্ণালীমাপক (bornalimapok) Catalan: espectròmetre m Chinese: Mandarin: 光譜儀 / 光谱仪 (zh) (guāngpǔyí) Czech: spektrometr m Dutch: spectrometer (nl) m Finnish: spektrometri French: spectromètre (fr) m German: Spektrometer (de) n Hindi: वर्णक्रममापी (varṇakrammāpī) Italian: spettrometro (it) m, spettroscopio m Japanese: 分光計 (ぶんこうけい, bunkōkei) Kannada: ರೋಹಿತ ಮಾಪಕ (kn) (rōhita māpaka) Korean: 분광기 (ko) (bun'gwanggi) Malay: spektrometer Norwegian: Bokmål: spektrometer n Nynorsk: spektrometer n Persian: طیف‌سنج (fa) (teyf-sanj) Polish: spektrometr (pl) m inan Portuguese: espetrómetro m (Portugal), espectrómetro m (Portugal), espectrômetro m (Brazil) Romanian: spectrometru (ro) n Russian: спектро́метр (ru) m (spektrómetr) Spanish: espectrómetro (es) Tagalog: balngawsukat

Dutch

Etymology

From spectro- +‎ meter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtroː.meː.tər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oːmeːtər
• Hyphenation: spec‧tro‧me‧ter

Noun

spectrometer m (plural spectrometers, diminutive spectrometertje n)

2. (analytical chemistry) spectrometer (instrument for measuring the absorption of light by chemical substances)

Related terms

• spectrograaf