Spectrophotometer
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 An instrument used to measure the intensity of electromagnetic radiation at different wavelengths.
- 2 a photometer for comparing two light radiations wavelength by wavelength wordnet
Example
More examples"But how would the great painting look if Seurat's colors had not, as the art world calls it, gone fugitive? Enter Roy Berns, who gingerly ran an instrument called a spectrophotometer over the priceless Seurat."
Etymology
From spectro- + photometer.
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