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PRISM SPECTROSCOPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prism spectroscope mean? 

PRISM SPECTROSCOPE (noun)
  The noun PRISM SPECTROSCOPE has 1 sense:

1. an optical instrument for spectrographic analysisplay

  Familiarity information: PRISM SPECTROSCOPE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRISM SPECTROSCOPE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An optical instrument for spectrographic analysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

prism spectroscope; spectroscope

Hypernyms ("prism spectroscope" is a kind of...):

optical instrument (an instrument designed to aid vision)

Meronyms (parts of "prism spectroscope"):

collimator (optical device consisting of a tube containing a convex achromatic lens at one end and a slit at the other with the slit at the focus of the lens; light rays leave the slit as a parallel beam)

optical prism; prism (optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prism spectroscope"):

mass spectrometer; spectrometer (spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer)

spectrograph (a spectroscope by which spectra can be photographed)


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