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echellette

echellette noun: a form of echelle grating.

Noun

echellette (plural echellettes)

  1. A form of echelle grating
    • We use the HST photometry from WFPC2 and WFC3 images obtained with UV and optical filters, as well as MagE echellette spectrograph data from the Las Campanas Clay 6.5m telescope, in order to construct the observed UV/optical SED of NGC 7252: W3.2016, I. Cabrera-Ziri, N. Bastian, M. Hilker, B. Davies, F. Schweizer, J. M. D. Kruijssen, A. Mejía-Narváez, F. Niederhofer, T. D. Brandt, M. Rejkuba, G. Bruzual, G. Magris, “Is the Escape Velocity...

Forms of echellette

pluralechellettes

Origin of echellette

From echelle + -ette.

Questions about echellette

What does echellette mean?
Echellette means a form of echelle grating.
What part of speech is echellette?
Echellette is a noun.
What is the plural of echellette?
The plural of echellette is echellettes.

Words near echellette in the dictionary

  1. echelettes
  2. echelle
  3. echelle grating
  4. echelle gratings
  5. echelles
  6. echellette
  7. echellettes
  8. echelon
  9. echelon form
  10. echelon forms
  11. echelon lens

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