spectral
Origin of spectral
1Other words from spectral
- spec·tral·i·ty, spec·tral·ness, noun
- spec·tral·ly, adverb
- non·spec·tral, adjective
- non·spec·tral·ly, adverb
- non·spec·tral·i·ty, noun
Words Nearby spectral
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How to use spectral in a sentence
She is a leading expert in modeling potential habitable worlds and their detectable spectral fingerprint, which can be detected with the next generation of telescopes.
Where Aliens Could Be Watching Us - Issue 106: Intelligent Life | Lisa Kaltenegger | September 16, 2021 | NautilusThe monsters—writhing spectral figures, literally faceless women—are nothing we haven’t seen before.
In the story, London is split between people with homes and those who live on the street, and again divided between human beings and a spectral race of aliens that has claimed the Square Mile as its own.
Politics and the pandemic have changed how we imagine cities | Joanne McNeil | April 28, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewIn particular, the visible light shows spectral signatures of shock waves, which result when high-speed gas from a supernova slams into gas around it.
A gargantuan supernova remnant looks 40 times as big as the full moon | Ken Croswell | March 17, 2021 | Science NewsHis brother Niles, also a psychiatrist, is, for a time, married to Maris, a spectral caricature who’s never seen on the show.
But Kasich and Walker face competitive re-elections; their national presence is spectral, their national potential speculative.
Where the Austin building is nuanced and almost spectral, Bakersfield is all verve and gesture.
Obama's Building Boom: Will His Architecture Legacy Be as Lasting as FDR's? | Ian Volner | January 4, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat a spectral and exaggerated shape all things take in her scared and over-excited gaze!
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le FanuEven as I looked I saw the features of a human countenance—and yet not human either, so spectral was it, so unreal and strange.
Uncanny Tales | VariousOur fellows were being hard beset to hold on to what they had won; there, where the horizon stood out with spectral luminosity.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamiltonspectral shapes issue forth suddenly, and return as suddenly into the deep shade.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor HugoMist floated upward from marsh and lake; and through it the spectral palms loomed, drooping fronds embroidered with dew.
In Search of the Unknown | Robert W. Chambers
British Dictionary definitions for spectral
/ (ˈspɛktrəl) /
of or like a spectre
of or relating to a spectrum: spectral colours
physics (of a physical quantity) relating to a single wavelength of radiation: spectral luminous efficiency
Derived forms of spectral
- spectrality (spɛkˈtrælɪtɪ) or spectralness, noun
- spectrally, adverb
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