spectrologyn.
rare.
1. The science or study of spectres.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > ghost-lore
nerterology1800
spectrology1820
ghostology1824
ghostlore1833
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1821) II. 196 The gloom of religious abstraction, and the wildness of their situation,..had filled their imaginations with the frightful chimeras of witchcraft and spectrology.
1827 W. Hone Table Bk. I. 710 Spectrology. A Remarkable Narrative.
2. The scientific study of spectra.
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the world > matter > colour > science of colour > [noun] > spectrology or spectroscopy
spectrology1862
spectrum analysis1866
spectroscopy1870
the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > decomposition of light, spectrum > study of spectra > [noun]
spectrology1862
spectroscopy1870
spectrophotometry1899
spectrometry1902
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [noun] > spectrum > analysis of
spectrology1862
spectroscopy1870
1862 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 83 440 The attention of the French scientific world is wholly fixed on spectrology, for thus do they designate the experiment with the spectroscope of Bunsen and Kirchhof. [Hence in Webster (1864), etc.]
1969 James & Sternberg Design of Optical Spectrometers p. x Spectroscopy (or spectrology, to introduce here a word coined by Fellgett) belongs to this branch of physics.
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