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Spectrophotometer

Spectrophotometer \Spec`tro*pho*tom"e*ter\, n. [Spectrum + photometer.]

  1. (Opt.) An instrument for measuring or comparing the intensities of the colors of the spectrum.

  2. (Chem., Physics) An analytical instrument for measuring the degree of absorption of light at different wavelengths by a chemical substance. A specific pattern of absorption intensities at a series of wavelengths is a characteristic of each different chemical substance.

Wiktionary
spectrophotometer

n. (context physics English) An instrument used to measure the intensity of electromagnetic radiation at different wavelengths.

WordNet
spectrophotometer

n. a photometer for comparing two light radiations wavelength by wavelength

Usage examples of "spectrophotometer".

Rubens engraving of Loyola seems to mock me as it hangs there above the spectrophotometer tracings.

During the experiment, a spectrophotometer was used to measure the light transmission as a function of time.

X-ray fluorescence spectrophotometer specifically designed for alloy analysis.

You need a spectrometer and a spectrophotometer to make the same differentiation she can do with a glance.

And the mass spectrophotometer takes the sample, you give it and determines the molecular weight of all the compounds in it.

Zap-the flash of light from the mass spectrophotometer hit the gas in the tube.

Cleveland, eyes upon interferometer grating and spectrophotometer charts, fingers flying over calculator keys, grinned as he turned toward Rodebush.

Fortunately, the two spectrophotometers allow us to assemble a library of photographs of the microscopic appearance of alloys of known composition.

These had egg-heads, crammed with eyes, ears, noses, thermocouples, ion counters, spectrophotometers.

A FTIR, or Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer, had caused the fibers to selectively absorb infrared light.

One runs to a charge coupled device (CCD) camera and the other to a microminiature spectrophotometer.