Synonyms for spectrum

Grammar : Noun

Spell : spek-truh m

Phonetic Transcription : ˈspɛk trəm

Top 10 synonyms for spectrum

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Définition of spectrum

Origin : 1610s, "apparition, specter," from Latin spectrum "appearance, image, apparition," from specere "to look at, view" (see scope (n.1)). Meaning "band of colors formed from a beam of light" first recorded 1670s.

noun color spectrum
noun range
noun array

Example sentences :

Human vision, as he knew, utilizes only a tiny fraction of the spectrum.
Extract from : « Salvage in Space » by John Stewart Williamson

Overloaded, the bulges' screens flared through the spectrum and failed.
Extract from : « Masters of Space » by Edward Elmer Smith

For two of the stars the spectrum is for the present unknown.
Extract from : « Lectures on Stellar Statistics » by Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier

Each shade of colour has its definite position in the spectrum.
Extract from : « The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) » by J. Arthur Thomson

It may be asked, What is the cause of the various colours in the spectrum?
Extract from : « Aether and Gravitation » by William George Hooper

Now the colours of the spectrum are to the eye what the notes are to the ear.
Extract from : « Aether and Gravitation » by William George Hooper

Huggins has found that the spectrum of this nebula is not gaseous.
Extract from : « Aether and Gravitation » by William George Hooper

The other colours of the spectrum must, to some extent, be associated with the blue.
Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall

What is true of the red is true of every other ray of the spectrum, visible and invisible.
Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall

Merna explained that it was the spectrum of their south polar star.
Extract from : « To Mars via The Moon » by Mark Wicks

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