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spectrogram
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Word definitions for spectrogram in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"photograph of a spectrum," 1890, from spectro- + -gram .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a photographic record of a spectrum [syn: spectrograph ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A spectrogram is a visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies in a sound or other signal as they vary with time or some other variable. Spectrograms are sometimes called spectral waterfalls , voiceprints , or voicegrams . Spectrograms can be used ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spectrogram \Spec"tro*gram\, n. [Spectrum + -gram.] (Physics) A photograph, map, or diagram of a spectrum.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A visual representation of the spectrum of a sound changing through time. 2 (context astronomy English) A visual representation of the spectrum of a celestial body's radiation.
Usage examples of spectrogram.
I sat at a console while the armaments safe checked my fingerprints, took breath samples and a retinal blood spectrogram, ran some perception-and-judgment response time tests, then quizzed me for five minutes about the case.
As a thumbprint would identify one man from millions so a spectrogram would identify one star from those that thronged the galaxy.
Whereupon I had to take note of the amplitude of each pulse and the elapsed time between them, less or more as the tone was raised or lowered, and identify them as frequencies, and constitute them as sound spectrograms, and translate them into syllables and finally words.
I have recorded the spectrograms and light curves of dozens, since I started working at the lunar observatory.
Lucy, Berger and Manham look at the sound spectrograms on the computer screen.
Nate spent the whole afternoon and most of the evening trying to analyze spectrograms of whale-song recordings, correlate behavior patterns, and then chart the corresponding patterns of interaction.
People who spend way too much time looking at spectrograms of underwater sound.
He sat in a comfortable chair watching sound spectrograms scroll across one computer monitor, while on another a program picked out the digital sequence in the subsonic signal and broke it into text.
I have recorded the spectrograms and light-curves of dozens, since I started working at the lunar observatory.
The way Ham did it was by taking key signatures from a spectrogram of the primary star's radiation, then programming the scanner to look for reflections of it.
The way Ham did it was by taking key signatures from a spectrogram of the primary star’.