spectrum analysis

Questions about spectrum analysis

What does spectrum analysis mean?

spectrum analysis means "the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra".

What is another word for spectrum analysis?

Close synonyms include spectroscopy, spectrometry, spectroscopic analysis, spectrographic analysis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spectrum analysis a common word?

spectrum analysis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.