Spectrophotometer

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An instrument used to measure the intensity of electromagnetic radiation at different wavelengths.
  2. 2
    a photometer for comparing two light radiations wavelength by wavelength wordnet

Example

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"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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