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spectroscope

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

An optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis .

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

an optical instrument for spectrographic analysis

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: prism spectroscope

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: optical instrument

Narrower terms: mass spectrometer, spectrometer, spectrograph

History

Etymology

From spectro- + -scope.

Across languages

Translations

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مِطْيَاف (miṭyāf) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Armenian: լուսապատկերացոյց (lusapatkeracʻoycʻ) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Belarusian: спектраскоп (spjektraskóp) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Bulgarian: спектроскоп (spektroskop) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Catalan: espectroscopi — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Chinese Mandarin: 分光鏡 /分光镜 (fēnguāngjìng) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Chinese Mandarin: 光譜鏡 /光谱镜 (guāngpǔjìng) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Czech: spektroskop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Czech: vidmohled — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Danish: spektroskop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Dutch: spectroscoop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Esperanto: spektroskopo — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Estonian: spektroskoop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Finnish: spektroskooppi — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • French: spectroscope — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Georgian: სპექტროსკოპი (sṗekṭrosḳoṗi) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • German: Spektroskop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Greek: φασματοσκόπιο (fasmatoskópio) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Hebrew: ספקטרוסקופ (spektroskóp) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Hungarian: spektroszkóp — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Irish: speictreascóp — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Italian: spettroscopio — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Japanese: 分光器 (bunkōki) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Korean: 분광기 (bun'gwanggi) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Latvian: spektroskops — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Lithuanian: spektroskopas — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Macedonian: спектроскоп (spektroskop) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Norwegian Bokmål: spektroskop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: spektroskop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Polish: spektroskop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Portuguese: espectroscópio — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Romanian: spectroscop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Russian: спектроскоп (spektroskop) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Serbo-Croatian: спектроскоп — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Serbo-Croatian: spektroskop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Slovak: spektroskop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Slovene: spektroskop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Spanish: espectroscopio — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Swedish: spektroskop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Tagalog: balngawsipat — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Turkish: spektroskop — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Turkish: tayfölçer — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Ukrainian: спектроскоп (spektroskop) — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
  • Vietnamese: kính quang phổ — optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis
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