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spectroscope
An instrument that disperses light into its spectrum, magnifies it, and displays it for observation.
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scopo-, scop-, scept-, skept-, -scope-, -scopy, -scopia, -scopic, -scopist
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spec-, spic-, spect-, spectat-, spectro- -spectr, -spectful, -spection, -spective
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“spectroscope”
An instrument that allows quantitative measurements to be made of spectra (splitting up of electromagnetic radiation into constituent wavelengths): A device designed for visual observation of spectra is called a spectroscopeand an instrument that photographs or maps spectra is a "spectrograph".
In optics, the arrangement according to wavelength of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light.
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