Noun
The word is derived from spectrum
of Spectrum
Source: Webster's dictionary"Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide. Thomas Pynchon
This image of four spectra is taken from one of Huggins's publications. ...You can see that the Comet Winnecke resembles olive oil more than it does Comet Brorsen. Carl Sagan
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta. Johannes Stark
I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims. Gio Gonzalez
There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space. Garik Israelian
With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms. Johannes Stark