Word familynounspectrochemistryspectrogramspectrographspectrographyspectroheliogramspectroheliographspectrohelioscopespectrometerspectrometryspectrophotometerspectrophotometryspectroscopespectroscopistspectroscopyspectrumadjectivespectrographicspectrometricspectroscopicadverbspectroscopically
spectroscope• The brightsolar surface is made up of gas at reasonably high pressure, so that in a spectroscope it yields a rainbow.• Just as a telescope collects light, so a spectroscopesplits it up.
Originspectroscope
(1800-1900)Latinspectrum ( → SPECTRUM) + English-scope (as in microscope)