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View synonyms for spectra

spectra

[ spek-truh ]

noun

  1. a plural of spectrum.


spectra

/ ˈspɛktrə /

noun

  1. the plural of spectrum
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Firstly, water vapor interferes and overlaps with the absorption spectra of many gases in the standard infrared ranges normally used for detection.

Astronomers can tell whether there’s a black hole in the galaxy by looking at large emission lines in their spectra, created by gas around the black hole swirling at high speed.

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That sparked the scientists to look back at the galaxy’s sleepy past using archived images and spectra from six different telescopes.

So, the students looked through Frebel's binder for stars with spectra, or measurements of starlight, that indicated low abundances of strontium and barium.

To demonstrate their system's capability, the researchers used it to acquire the spectra of six types of resins and employed a neural network to classify the spectra pixel-by-pixel in multiple wavelengths.

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