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Spectrogram

Spectrogram \Spec"tro*gram\, n. [Spectrum + -gram.] (Physics) A photograph, map, or diagram of a spectrum.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spectrogram

"photograph of a spectrum," 1890, from spectro- + -gram.

Wiktionary
spectrogram

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.

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spectrogram

n. a photographic record of a spectrum [syn: spectrograph]

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Spectrogram

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 to identify spoken words phonetically, and to analyse the various calls of animals. They are used extensively in the development of the fields of music, sonar, radar, and speech processing, seismology, etc.

The instrument that generates a spectrogram is called a spectrograph.

The sample outputs on the right show a select block of frequencies going up the vertical axis, and time on the horizontal axis.

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’.