"spectrometer" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-spectrometer.wav [US] Forms: spectrometers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ) Etymology: spectro- + -meter Etymology templates: {{confix|en|spectro|meter}} spectro- + -meter Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: spectrometer Categories (topical): Analytical chemistry, Measuring instruments Derived forms: mass spectrometer, X-ray spectrometer Related terms: spectrometry Translations (instrument for measuring the absorption of light by chemical substances): বর্ণালীমাপক (bornalimapok) (Bengali), espectròmetre [masculine] (Catalan), 光譜儀 (Chinese Mandarin), 光谱仪 (guāngpǔyí) (Chinese Mandarin), spektrometr [masculine] (Czech), spectrometer [masculine] (Dutch), spektrometri (Finnish), spectromètre [masculine] (French), Spektrometer [neuter] (German), वर्णक्रममापी (varṇakrammāpī) (Hindi), spettrometro [masculine] (Italian), spettroscopio [masculine] (Italian), 分光計 (bunkōkei) (alt: ぶんこうけい) (Japanese), ರೋಹಿತ ಮಾಪಕ (rōhita māpaka) (Kannada), 분광기 (bun'gwanggi) (Korean), spektrometer (Malay), spektrometer [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), spektrometer [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), طیفسنج (teyf-sanj) (Persian), espetrómetro [Portugal, masculine] (Portuguese), espectrómetro [Portugal, masculine] (Portuguese), espectrômetro [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), spectrometru [neuter] (Romanian), спектро́метр (spektrómetr) [masculine] (Russian), espectrómetro (Spanish), balngawsukat (Tagalog)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.