spectrometer

English

Etymology

spectro- +‎ -meter

Noun

spectrometer (plural spectrometers)

1. (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 (bornalimapok)
• Catalan: espectròmetre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 光譜儀／光谱仪 (zh) (guāngpǔyí), 光谱仪 (zh) (guāngpǔyí)

• Dutch: spectrometer 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 분광기 (ko) (bun'gwanggi)
• Malay: spektrometer
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spektrometer n

  Nynorsk: spektrometer n

• 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

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Dutch

Etymology

spectro- +‎ meter

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: spec‧tro‧me‧ter

Noun

spectrometer m (plural spectrometers, diminutive spectrometertje n)

1. spectrometer

Related terms

• spectrograaf