Phrase Hound found 11 phrases and 16 compound words that contain spectra. The most common are listed below. Open spectra in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 11
- absorption spectraplural of absorption spectrum: The characteristic pattern of dark lines or bands that occurs when electromagnetic radiation is passed through an absorbing medium into a spectroscope.
- emission spectraplural of emission spectrum: The spectrum of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation emitted due to electrons making a transition from a high energy state to a lower energy state.
- mass spectraplural of mass spectrum: The output of a mass spectrometer.
- optical spectraplural of optical spectrum: The colours of the rainbow.
- political spectraplural of political spectrum: The various political viewpoints represented as a continuum, ranging from the extreme left to the extreme right.
- X-ray spectraplural of X-ray spectrum: The distribution of X-ray photons emitted by a source, as a function of photon energy or wavelength.
- band spectraplural of band spectrum: An absorption or emission spectrum consisting of bands of closely-spaced lines; characteristic of polyatomic molecules.
- light spectraplural of light spectrum: The portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to humans.
- line spectraplural of line spectrum: A spectrum, typically produced by a luminous gas, that consists of separate lines typical of particular elements
- electromagnetic spectraplural of electromagnetic spectrum: The entire range of wavelengths of all known electromagnetic radiations extending from gamma rays, to X-rays through visible light, infrared, to radio waves.
- first-order spectraplural of first-order spectrum: A spectrum produced by a diffraction grating whose adjacent slits are one wavelength apart.
Compound words 16
- spectrasexualAttracted to multiple genders and sexes, but not all of them.
- multispectramultispectral
- spectrallyIn a spectral manner; like a ghost.
- spectrascopeMisspelling of spectroscope: An optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis .
- autospectraplural of autospectrum: The variance of a function or output over time; the spectrum of a single time series.
- eigenspectraplural of eigenspectrum: The set of all eigenvalues of a linear operator.
- polyspectraplural of polyspectrum: A higher-order spectrum of a multivariate stationary time series
- pseudospectraplural of pseudospectrum: A set containing the spectrum of an operator and the numbers that are "almost" eigenvalues.
- spectralistOf, pertaining to, or participating in spectralism, a school of musical composition strongly influenced by the spectrographic analysis of sound
- spectralistsplural of spectralist: Of, pertaining to, or participating in spectralism, a school of musical composition strongly influenced by the spectrographic analysis of sound