radiospectrograph
/ˌreɪdioʊˈspɛktrəɡræf/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An instrument that records the intensity of radio frequency emissions across a range of frequencies over time, producing a visual representation known as a radio spectrogram.
Example Sentences
- "The Culgoora radiospectrograph picks up signals from the sun by broadband antennas and receivers which are swept over the whole band rapidly so that they record the signals received at all frequencies within half a second."
- "Therefore, the Radio JOVE 2.0 radio astronomy telescope is technically a radio spectrograph instrument, an instrument that can receive radio signals over a wide range of the radio spectrum."
- "The radiospectrograph data were received at the Ondrezhov Astronomical Observatory (Czechoslovakia)."
Etymology
From radio + spectrograph.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌreɪdioʊˈspɛktrəɡræf/