How to Use spectrograph in a Sentence

spectrograph

noun

• The tempo, the mood, the spectrograph, the acoustics, the time of day?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Oct. 2020
• The fibers send light from the object to the spectrograph.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2019
• And of course the scientists would all go and set up telescopes and spectrographs.
  — Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2015
• The spectrograph for lead [right] dropped from a high level in the month before death, a clue that his routine changed during that time.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
• The spectrograph detected telltale signs of water vapor in the form of clouds and haze.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
• Backlit ghosts don’t show up in my scope, and the sunset had seemed to follow me and my spectrograph to every new angle.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• My daughter, Starling, looked so small in my viewfinder, struggling under the weight of her spectrograph.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• These fibers carry the light from each galaxy into a spectrograph, which spreads out the light into a spectrum showing the amount of light given off at each wavelength.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2019
• Kate has since seen the bright blue spectrographs showing gaps in conversation—where the pauses occur.
  — Michael Erard, Quartz, 3 Sep. 2019
• This device has a camera and a spectrograph, and observes a kind of light from distant galaxies, coalescing stars, comets and objects in the Kuiper Belt.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
• These spectrographs are designed to pick up wobbles as slight as 10 centimeters per second.
  — Corey S. Powell, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2019
• Optical fibers manually attached to each hole caught each galaxy's light and fed it to a spectrograph.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 Sep. 2019
• Integral Field Unit: A combined camera and spectrograph captures an image, along with spectra for each pixel, revealing how the light varies across the field of view.
  — Jen Christiansen, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2022
• The Webb telescope, which just spotted its first exoplanet, will prove useful in this endeavor, thanks to its near-infrared spectrograph.
  — WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023
• Imaging with a spectrograph provided evidence of water at the Martian surface in the region, reinforcing the idea that this could be ice.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2018
• The second key ability provided by a spectrograph is the tracking of the motion materials.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2022
• And in recent decades, big questions about the structure and composition of the universe have called for specialized cameras and spectrographs capable of surveying large patches of the sky.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2019
• Each of those boxes sends light to a spectrograph, which breaks the light apart by wavelength to get information such as composition and motion, including speed and direction.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2019
• The mission is now slated for a 2025 launch, but, Sunyaev says, some collaborators, including a German team supplying a spectrograph, have dropped out.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2019
• The first step is to measure a target galaxy’s atomic emission and absorption chemical spectra using a spectrograph.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• One of them, called MUSE, will launch a novel spectrograph—a sensor that allows scientists to carefully analyze the properties of light generated by the sun—with the ability to take longer exposures over a wider field of view.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2022
• The instrument weighs 80 pounds, has an imaging spectrograph that measures light wavelength intensity.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Another light will then appear far overhead as the second stage of the Black Brant rocket fires, carrying an ultraviolet spectrograph 160 miles above northern Alaska.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
• The spectrograph for arsenic [left] shows an insignificantly elevated level in the Somerton Man.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
• A colorful projection of a digital spectrograph — a standard imaging tool that measures frequency analysis — was cast onto the gallery’s floor.
  — Reena Jana, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2001
• One of the new instrument’s primary goals will be to use a spectrograph to break up the light from these distant worlds into a spectrum, which can then be analyzed for specific signals associated with certain chemicals in the planet’s atmosphere.
  — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
• So, a relativistic camera would naturally serve as a spectrograph, allowing researchers to look at an intrinsically redder band of light.
  — Scientific American, 3 July 2018
• Among the spacecraft's instruments is an ultraviolet spectrograph, or UVS, that images Jupiter's auroras in ultraviolet light.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Oct. 2020
• The new spectrograph is capable of observing 5,000 targets simultaneously and is positioned on a telescope that has a primary mirror with a diameter approximately twice that of the Sloan telescope’s.
  — Kyle Dawson, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
• Determining the photochemical reactions happening in a faraway atmosphere takes an advanced and extremely fine-tuned telescope fit with a spectrograph.
  — Meghan Herbst, Wired, 4 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024