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Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.
spectrometer
optical instrument that disperses broadband light into its component wavelengths, allowing the measurement of light intensity at each individual wavelength. Spectrometers may use prisms or gratings for wavelength dispersion and any of a variety of light detectors including photomultiplier tubes or charge-coupled devices.