SPECTROMETRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spectrometry mean? 

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

1. the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPECTROMETRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

spectrographic analysis; spectrometry; spectroscopic analysis; spectroscopy; spectrum analysis

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

chemical analysis; qualitative analysis (the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements)

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

mass spectroscopy (the use of spectroscopy to determine the masses of small electrically charged particles)

microwave spectroscopy (the use of spectroscopy to study atomic or molecular resonances in the microwave spectrum)

Derivation:

spectrometric (of or relating to or involving spectrometry)

 Context examples 

Spectrometry used to determine aspects of bone composition.

(Bone Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)

A procedure used in mass spectrometry analysis.

(Electrospray Ionization, NCI Thesaurus)

An analytical technique wherein gas chromatography is coupled to mass spectrometry in order to separate, identify, and quantify substances in a sample.

(Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)

Performs peak identification for a collection of SELDI-TOF protein mass spectrometry samples.

(caPROcess Analytic Service, NCI Thesaurus)

A mass spectrometry technique used to increase the precision and accuracy of chemical analysis.

(Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)

In tandem mass spectrometry, the set of amino end (n-terminus) ions created from a peptide.

(B-ion, NCI Thesaurus)

In mass spectrometry, a product ion resulting from the dissociation of a precursor ion.

(Fragment Ion, NCI Thesaurus)

The Analytical Biochemistry Shared Resource provides chemistry services featuring mass spectrometry, chromatography, organic synthesis, and analytical biochemistry.

(Analytical Biochemistry Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

They identified two different iron cyano-carbonyl complexes in the meteorites using high-resolution liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.

(Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life, NASA)

An analytical technique wherein liquid chromatography is coupled to mass spectrometry in order to separate, identify, and quantify substances in a sample.

(Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)