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- noun physics An
echelle grating .
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CRIRES cryogenic high-resolution infrared echelle spectograph, 85–86, 88, 93
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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CRIRES cryogenic high-resolution infrared echelle spectograph, 85–86, 88, 93
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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At the time, the instrument—CRIRES, or the cryogenic high-resolution infrared echelle spectrograph—may have been the most powerful land-based astronomical instrument in the world for identifying and characterizing gases such as methane on distant planets and stars, allowing for a more precise locating of the methane plumes than ever before.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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At the time, the instrument—CRIRES, or the cryogenic high-resolution infrared echelle spectrograph—may have been the most powerful land-based astronomical instrument in the world for identifying and characterizing gases such as methane on distant planets and stars, allowing for a more precise locating of the methane plumes than ever before.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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I would bump in the echelle metallic shelves on which you put the racks of sorted macarons and a couple of coques would fall on the floor.
foodbeam » Sunday c’est Hermé – Second week: la folie des macarons 2007
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I would bump in the echelle metallic shelves on which you put the racks of sorted macarons and a couple of coques would fall on the floor.
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'Une bonne intention est une echelle trop courte.'
In Kedar's Tents Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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His first work at the Opera Comique was the one-act opera, "La double echelle," produced in 1837 with success.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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The Chief was short of stature, and he could only approach the window outside by calling one of the guards and ordering him to make the small ladder (_faire la petite echelle_).
The Rome Express Arthur Griffiths 1873
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When bodies of troops move in lines parallel to each other, but each somewhat in the rear of the other, so that their whole position resembles an echelle -- a flight of steps.
Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847
chained_bear commented on the word echelle
"fr. a ladder or stairs."
October 9, 2008
mollusque commented on the word echelle
Echelle Spectrometers: The echelle grating was invented by Harrison in 1949. An echelle grating is a ruled plane diffraction grating with relatively few rulings (typically 300 grooves mm-1 or less).
--Lauri H. J. Lajunen, 1992, Spectrochemical Analysis by Atomic Absorption and Emission, p. 176
November 1, 2008