How to pronounce spectrograph
American English pronunciation
SPEK-truh-graf
- IPA
- /ˈspɛktɹəˌɡɹæf/
- Syllables
- SPEK · truh · graf (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What spectrograph means
A machine that records light split into its colors
In a sentence: The spectrograph recorded the star's light as a long ribbon of colors.
Where it comes from: It is spectro-, a word part for the colors in spread-out light, plus -graph, meaning something that records.
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