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Where does “spectrofluorophotometer” come from?

spectrofluorophotometer (English) comes from English fluorophotometer, from English photometer, from English -meter, from French mètre, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον, from Ancient Greek -τρον, from Proto-Hellenic -tron — Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...

spectrofluorophotometer (English): A fluorophotometer equipped with a spectroscope

Definitions

  1. A fluorophotometer equipped with a spectroscope

Ancestry of “spectrofluorophotometer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfluorophotometerA photometer used in fluorophotometry
2EnglishphotometerAny of several instruments used to measure...
3English-meterUsed to form the names of measuring devices
4Frenchmètremetre/meter; first-person singular present...
5Latinmetruma measure
6Ancient Greekμέτρονsomething used to measure: measure, rule, weight;...
7Ancient Greek-τρονForms instrument nouns
8Proto-Hellenic-tronForms instrument nouns from verb stems
9Proto-Indo-European-tromForms nouns denoting a tool or instrument
10Proto-Indo-European-tḗrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
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