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MASS SPECTRUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mass spectrum mean?
• MASS SPECTRUM (noun)
The noun MASS SPECTRUM has 1 sense:
1. a distribution of ions as shown by a mass spectrograph or a mass spectrometer
Familiarity information: MASS SPECTRUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A distribution of ions as shown by a mass spectrograph or a mass spectrometer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("mass spectrum" is a kind of...):
spectrum (an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave)
Context examples
A private scoring engine developed by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute that can match tandem mass spectra with peptide sequences.
(Comet Scoring Engine, NCI Thesaurus)
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