SPECTROMETER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spectrometer mean? 

• SPECTROMETER (noun)
  The noun SPECTROMETER has 1 sense:

1. spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer

  Familiarity information: SPECTROMETER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPECTROMETER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

mass spectrometer; spectrometer

Hypernyms ("spectrometer" is a kind of...):

prism spectroscope; spectroscope (an optical instrument for spectrographic analysis)

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

mass spectrograph (a mass spectrometer that produces a graphical representation of the mass spectrum)

Derivation:

spectrometric (of or relating to or involving spectrometry)

 Context examples 

The team used four observations of Titan made between 2006 and 2011 by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)

The device, made from a single nanowire 1000 times thinner than a human hair, is the smallest spectrometer ever designed.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

Once a photograph was taken of the planet, astronomers then used instruments called spectrometers to break apart the planet's light.

(Water Found in Planet 120 Light Years Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An instrument called the mass spectrometer then analyzes the water with the molecules to determine whether cancer is present in the tissue.

(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)

CARMENES is the first high-precision spectrometer in operation that is designed specifically to find planets using this ‘red dwarf advantage‘.

(Researchers find two new planets with masses similar to Earth’s near a small neighbouring star, University of Granada)

Observations obtained by the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) on the Dawn spacecraft previously found water ice in a dozen sites on Ceres.

(NASA Dawn Reveals Recent Changes in Ceres' Surface, NASA)

The spectrometer observations show signatures of hydrated salts at multiple RSL locations, but only when the dark features were relatively wide.

(NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars, NASA)

A spectrometer in which a sample is introduced, either by spraying or ultrasonic nebulization, into inductively-coupled plasma generated from argon gas.

(Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer, NCI Thesaurus)

The time it takes for the net nuclear spin in the plane that is parallel to the magnetic field of a spectrometer to return to its equilibrium value.

(Longitudinal Relaxation Time, NCI Thesaurus)

The resulting ions are separated and analyzed using a mass spectrometer.

(Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)