spectroscopy

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Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti

Proto-Italic *spekjō

Latin speciō

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Italic *-trom

Latin -trum

Latin spectrumbor.

English spectrum

English spectro-

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Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti

Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai

Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Hellenic *-ós

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Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.

Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)

Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)

Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.

English -scopy

English spectroscopy

From spectro- + -scopy.

Pronunciation

• enPR: spĕk-trŏs′kə-pē
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtɹɒs.kə.piː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtɹɑs.kə.pi/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtɹɒs.kə.pi/
• (Australian) IPA^(key): /spekˈtɹɔs.kə.piː/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /spekˈtɹɔs.kə.piː/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtɹɔs.kə.pi/
• Rhymes: -ɒskəpiː
• Hyphenation: spec‧tros‧co‧py

Noun

spectroscopy (countable and uncountable, plural spectroscopies)

2. (astronomy, physics, uncountable) The scientific study of spectra.
3. (analytical chemistry, countable) The use of spectrometers in chemical analysis.

Derived terms

• absorption spectroscopy
• amplitude spectroscopy
• atomic absorption spectroscopy
• atomic emission spectroscopy
• Auger electron spectroscopy
• biospectroscopy
• fluorescence spectroscopy
• infrared spectroscopy
• magnetospectroscopy
• microspectroscopy
• microwave spectroscopy
• Mössbauer spectroscopy
• NMR spectroscopy
• photospectroscopy
• Raman spectroscopy
• spectroscopic
• spectroscopist
• X-ray spectroscopy

Related terms

• spectrometry
• spectroscope

Translations

scientific study of spectra

• Armenian: սպեկտրադիտում (spektraditum), սպեկտրոսկոպիա (hy) (spektroskopia)
• Catalan: espectroscòpia f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 光譜學 / 光谱学 (gwong¹ pou² hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 光譜學 / 光谱学 (zh) (guāngpǔxué)

• Czech: spektroskopie f
• Dutch: spectroscopie (nl) f
• Finnish: spektroskopia (fi)
• French: spectroscopie (fr) f
• German: Spektroskopie f
• Italian: spettroscopia (it) f
• Japanese: 分光法 (ぶんこうほう, bunkōhō), 分光学 (ぶんこうがく, bunkōgaku)
• Korean: 분광학(分光學) (ko) (bun'gwanghak)
• Malay: spektroskopi (ms)
• Persian: طیف‌بینی (teyf-bini)
• Polish: spektroskopia f
• Romanian: spectroscopie (ro) f
• Russian: спектроско́пия (ru) (spektroskópija)
• Swedish: spektroskopi c
• Tagalog: balngawsipatan
• Tamil: நிறமாலையியல் (ta) (niṟamālaiyiyal)
• Ukrainian: спектроскопі́я f (spektroskopíja)
• Vietnamese: quang phổ học (光譜學), phân quang học

See also

• spectrology

Anagrams

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