SPECTRUM
\spˈɛktɹəm], \spˈɛktɹəm], \s_p_ˈɛ_k_t_ɹ_ə_m]\
Definitions of SPECTRUM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave
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broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities
By Princeton University
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an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave
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broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An apparition; a specter.
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A luminous appearance, or an image seen after the eye has been exposed to an intense light or a strongly illuminated object. When the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper. Called also ocular spectrum.
By Oddity Software
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An image formed by the dividing of a ray of light into parts arranged according to their different wavelengths, as in the rainbow or in the passing of light through a prism.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The image of something seen continued after the eyes are closed: the colors of light separated by a prism, and exhibited as spread out on a screen:-pl. SPECTRA.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An image formed by rays of light refracted, as through a prism, displaying the colors of the rainbow.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Variously colored band into which light is decomposed in passing through a prism or grating of glass
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A band consisting of a definite succession of colors into which a beam of white light is decomposed when it is passed through a prism or a diffraction grating.
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Of any specific substance, its absorption s.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] A visible form; something seen ; -also, an image presented to the eyes after removing them from a bright or coloured object ;-the display of colours resulting from the decomposition of light; or a beam of solar light passing through a small hole into a darkened room, and refracted by a triangular glass prism- the beam or ray is decomposed into seven colours, called prismatic;-pl. Spectra.
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