Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A graphic or photographic representation of a spectrum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The photograph of a spectrum, made-by a spectrograph, that is, a spectroscopic camera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) A photograph, map, or diagram of a spectrum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
visual representation of thespectrum of asound changing throughtime . - noun astronomy A visual representation of the spectrum of a celestial body's
radiation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a photographic record of a spectrum
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Examples
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By this means there is attained what is known as a mass spectrogram, that is to say a series of lines in which each line corresponds to a certain atomic weight, and where the numerical value of each atomic weight can be read off from the distance of the line from the line or lines which are produced by any fundamental substance that is chosen as a standard - usually carbon-12 or oxygen-16.
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The sound of the heartbeat within is then audible (best heard if you're wearing full earphones rather than earbuds, which don't carry the deep sound of the heartbeat very well), and a spectrogram image of the heart's rhythm appears on the phone's screen.
An app after your own heart Jennifer LaRue Huget 2010
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Nearby, the intact Surveyor 5 withstood all odds and made space history by managing to perform an alpha particle spectrogram of the soil while withstanding temperatures considerably greater than the boiling point.
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: March 19-21, 2010 | Universe Today 2010
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“Okay, show us the original spectrogram, please,” said Uhura.
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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“Okay, show us the original spectrogram, please,” said Uhura.
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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Very cool tricks--I especially like how they turned the spectrogram into a set of fingerprint-like "features" which could then be matched in a database.
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“Okay, show us the original spectrogram, please,” said Uhura.
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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He shows me a spectrogram of a wilderness recording, in which all the component noises are mapped according to pitch.
Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology 2008
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He shows me a spectrogram of a wilderness recording, in which all the component noises are mapped according to pitch.
Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology 2008
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I.e. he generated a spectrogram of the proxies using a different orthonormal basis set.
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