Definition of spectrograph in English:
spectrograph
nounˈspɛktrə(ʊ)ɡrɑːfˈspɛktrəˌɡræf
An apparatus for photographing or otherwise recording spectra.
Example sentencesExamples
- An imaging spectrograph, a digital camera, and a computer analyze the amount of laser light absorbed by the apples, which indicates sweetness.
- Astronomers have proven this by analyzing the light of distant objects with spectrographs.
- This approach enables a single imaging spectrograph to perform the work of several independent spectrographs.
- The imaging spectrograph is connected to a computer.
- The high-resolution spectrographs on the world's largest telescopes were able to measure wavelengths in quasar spectra more accurately than they had ever been measured in the laboratory.
Derivatives
adjectivespɛktrə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪkˌspɛktrəˈɡræfɪk
However, to the naked eye, the color of emission seems identical among these species, but only spectrographic analysis can prove this.
Example sentencesExamples
- I can't tell what it is without having to conduct a spectrographic analysis first.
- Moira sits amongst reams of print-outs and screens of spectrographic soundwave data.
- The proportions of these isotopes have been computed from spectrographic analysis.
- Telescopic, gravimetric, and spectrographic scans have revealed fourteen planets in the system.
adverbspɛktrə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪk(ə)li
These analyses for 32 additional elements, made less frequently, raised the total number of elements determined spectrographically in uranium-base materials to 65.
Example sentencesExamples
- A total of 24 females and 137 great calls were of sufficient quality to be spectrographically analysed from the four populations.
- We further analyzed songs spectrographically.
- The geographic cline of the first canonical variate implies that calls from adjacent locations are more similar to each other spectrographically than those from more distant sites.
- The only inaccuracy is the advertised wavelength: it reads ‘650 nm’ when it was measured spectrographically at 660 nm.
nounspɛkˈtrɒɡrəfispɛkˈtrɑɡrəfi
A fortuitous recent result of asteroidal spectrography found that the object under observation was, in fact, a nearly dormant comet.
Example sentencesExamples
- From closer in, or with the planet eclipsing the sun, he would be able to get a spectrography of the atmosphere.
- Peirce was an acquaintance of Henry Rowland and, like him, conducted research on color spectrography.
- Before the end of that century, astronomers knew the answer to that question, thanks to spectrography.
Definition of spectrograph in US English:
spectrograph
nounˈspektrəˌɡrafˈspɛktrəˌɡræf
An apparatus for photographing or otherwise recording spectra.
Example sentencesExamples
- The imaging spectrograph is connected to a computer.
- Astronomers have proven this by analyzing the light of distant objects with spectrographs.
- An imaging spectrograph, a digital camera, and a computer analyze the amount of laser light absorbed by the apples, which indicates sweetness.
- The high-resolution spectrographs on the world's largest telescopes were able to measure wavelengths in quasar spectra more accurately than they had ever been measured in the laboratory.
- This approach enables a single imaging spectrograph to perform the work of several independent spectrographs.