Spectrograph

Word SPECTROGRAPH
Character 12
Hyphenation spec tro graph
Pronunciations /ˈspɛktɹəˌɡɹæf/

Definitions and meanings of "Spectrograph"

What do we mean by spectrograph?

A spectroscope equipped to photograph or otherwise record spectra. noun

An apparatus designed to give a representation of the spectrum from any source, particularly one in which photography is employed; a spectroscope in which a sensitive photographic plate takes the placeof the eyepiece of the observing telescope. noun

An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum. noun

A photograph or picture of a spectrum. noun

A machine for recording spectra, producing spectrograms. noun

A photographic record of a spectrum noun

A spectroscope by which spectra can be photographed noun

A machine for recording spectra, producing spectrograms.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Spectrograph

The word "spectrograph" in example sentences

The tip-off was its spectrum, the rainbow of colors that appears when starlight is smeared out in an instrument called a spectrograph. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A spectrum is created when an instrument called a spectrograph spreads light from an object apart into a rainbow of different wavelengths. ❋ Unknown (2010)

NASA calls the spectrograph is its primary black-hole hunter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With Saturday's camera remedy, fixing the spectrograph is a bonus. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mayor worked alongside an international team of scientists who made the observation using the low-mass-exoplanet hunting device known as the HARPS spectrograph, which is attached to the 3.6 meter ESO telescope at La Silla, Chile. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The astronomers used an instrument on Spitzer, called a spectrograph, to break apart the star's light and look for fingerprints of chemicals, in what is called a spectrum. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Indeed, when you hit the play button the app displays something called the "envelope waveform" as well as a spectrograph of the song as it scrolls along. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

It was among a trove of 50 exoplanets they detected around nearby stars using a spectrograph called the High Accuracy Radial-velocity Planet Searcher HARPS, which is based at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. ❋ Robert Lee Hotz (2011)

Among the proposed components is a spectrograph instrument called Harmoni. ❋ Unknown (2011)

My Taurus .357 was lying next to the busted spectrograph, just a few steps away. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At the time, the instrument—CRIRES, or the cryogenic high-resolution infrared echelle spectrograph—may have been the most powerful land-based astronomical instrument in the world for identifying and characterizing gases such as methane on distant planets and stars, allowing for a more precise locating of the methane plumes than ever before. ❋ Marc Kaufman (2011)

William Aston at Cambridge University, with the aid of an instrument developed by him, the mass spectrograph. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He could put this camera and this spectrograph on a telescope with the extra Kitt Peak mirror and let the telescope drift scan along one strip of the sky after another. ❋ Ann Finkbeiner (2010)

The CCDs were the best available, he said, and so were the fibers in the spectrograph, and the 2.5-meter telescope was the size that fit them both. ❋ Ann Finkbeiner (2010)

APOGEE, the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, would build a spectrograph that operated in the infrared to see through all the clouds and dust in the plane of the Milky Way that Sloan I had to avoid. ❋ Ann Finkbeiner (2010)

But he imagined a survey done with a telescope that had both a camera with a lot of CCDs and a spectrograph whose CCDs were fed with a lot of fibers, allowing the spectrograph to take a lot of redshifts simultaneously. ❋ Ann Finkbeiner (2010)

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