SPECTROSCOPIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spectroscopic mean? 

• SPECTROSCOPIC (adjective)
  The adjective SPECTROSCOPIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or involving spectroscopy

  Familiarity information: SPECTROSCOPIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPECTROSCOPIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or involving spectroscopy

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

spectroscopic; spectroscopical

Context example:

spectroscopic analysis

Pertainym:

spectroscopy (the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra)

Derivation:

spectroscope (an optical instrument for spectrographic analysis)

spectroscopy (the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra)

 Context examples 

He and his colleagues will use Webb’s spectroscopic instruments to learn more about the chemical elements and compounds in those clouds.

(NASA’s Webb Telescope to Investigate Mysterious Brown Dwarfs, NASA)

Resource also provides consultations regarding problems in chemical synthesis and modification, assistance in the spectroscopic characterization of unknown compounds, access to combinatorial synthesis, and support in drug development efforts.

(Organic and Synthetic Chemistry Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging.

(MRSI, NCI Dictionary)

Instead of rambling this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside—East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)