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Spectrometer

Spec-trom′e-ter

,

Noun.

[

Spectrum

+

-meter

.]

(Physics)

A spectroscope fitted for measurements of the luminious spectra observed with it.

Definition 2024

spectrometer

spectrometer

English

Noun

spectrometer ‎(plural spectrometers)

(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.

Related terms

spectrometry

Translations

instrument for measuring the absorption of light by chemical substances

Bengali: বর্ণালীমাপক ‎(bôrnalimapôk)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 光譜儀 (zh), 光谱仪 (zh) ‎(guāngpǔyí)
Dutch: spectrometer m
Finnish: spektrometri
French: spectromètre (fr) m
German: Spektrometer (de) n
Hindi: वर्णक्रममापी ‎(varṇkrammāpī)

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
Persian: طیف‌سنج (fa) ‎(teyf-sanj)
Portuguese: espectrómetro m (Portugal), espectrômetro m (Brazil)
Romanian: spectrometru (ro) n
Russian: спектро́метр (ru) m ‎(spektrómetr)
Spanish: espectrómetro (es)
Tagalog: balngawsukat

Dutch

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: spec‧tro‧me‧ter

Etymology

spectro- +‎ meter

Noun

spectrometer m ‎(plural spectrometers, diminutive spectrometertje n)

spectrometer

Related terms

spectrograaf