spectroscopic
adjEtymology From spectro- + -scopic, or borrowed from French spectroscopique.
1
Of or relating to spectroscopy or to a spectroscope.
Analytical chemistry
- The station, with its vast array of telescopes and some of the most sensitive spectroscopic equipment ever made has detected more planets orbiting nearby stars.1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 78:
- Derived terms
- microspectroscopic, multispectroscopic, optospectroscopic, photospectroscopic, spectroscopically, spectroscopic analysis, spectroscopic binary, spectroscopic notation