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evanescent
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French évanescent (“evanescent”), from Latin ?v?n?sc?ns (“disappearing, vanishing”), present participle of ?v?n?sc? (“to disappear, vanish; to die out, fade away; to lapse”), from ?- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away, out’)) + v?n?sc? (“to vanish”) (from v?nus (“empty, vacant, void”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?weh?- (“to abandon, leave”)) + -?sc? (suffix forming verbs with the sense ‘to become’)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v??n?s(?)nt/, /i?v?-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??v??n?s?nt/
- Rhymes: -?s?nt
- Hyphenation: eva?nes?cent
Adjective
evanescent (comparative more evanescent, superlative most evanescent)
- Disappearing, vanishing.
- Synonym: nonevanescent
- (electromagnetism) Of an oscillating electric or magnetic field: not propagating as an electromagnetic wave but having its energy spatially concentrated in the vicinity of its source.
- (mathematics) Of a number or value: diminishing to the point of reaching zero as a limit; infinitesimal.
- Barely there; almost imperceptible.
- Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.
- Synonyms: nonevanescent; see also Thesaurus:ephemeral
- (botany) Of plant parts: shed after a period.
Derived terms
- evanescence
- evanescently
- nonevanescent
Related terms
- evanesce
Translations
References
Further reading
- evanescent field on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- evanescent (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Verb
?v?n?scent
- third-person plural future active indicative of ?v?n?sc?
Romanian
Etymology
From French évanescent
Adjective
evanescent m or n (feminine singular evanescent?, masculine plural evanescen?i, feminine and neuter plural evanescente)
- evanescent
Declension
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spectral
English
Etymology
Equivalent to spectre +? -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp?kt???/
Adjective
spectral (comparative more spectral, superlative most spectral)
- Of, or pertaining to, spectres; ghostly.
- Synonym: ghostly
- Antonym: nonspectral
- Of, or pertaining to, spectra; classified according to frequency or wavelength (of light etc)
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- cepstral, craplets, sceptral
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?k.t?al/
Adjective
spectral (feminine singular spectrale, masculine plural spectraux, feminine plural spectrales)
- spectral
Related terms
- spectre
Further reading
- “spectral” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Romanian
Etymology
French spectral
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [spek?tral]
Adjective
spectral m or n (feminine singular spectral?, masculine plural spectrali, feminine and neuter plural spectrale)
- spectral
Declension
Synonyms
- fantomatic
Related terms
- spectru
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