different between spectral vs spectrum
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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spectrum
English
Etymology
From Latin spectrum (“appearance, image, apparition”), from speci? (“look at, view”). Doublet of specter. See also scope.
Pronunciation
- (Canada, UK) IPA(key): /?spekt??m/
- (US) IPA(key): /?sp?kt(?)??m/
- Rhymes: -?kt??m
Noun
spectrum (plural spectra or spectrums)
- A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes.
- Specifically, a range of colours representing light (electromagnetic radiation) of contiguous frequencies; hence electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, ultraviolet spectrum, etc. [from later 17th c.]
- 2010 October 30, Jim Giles, Jammed!, in New Scientist,
- Current 3G technologies can send roughly 1 bit of data - a one or a zero - per second over each 1 Hz of spectrum that the operator owns.
- 2010 October 30, Jim Giles, Jammed!, in New Scientist,
- (psychology, education) The autism spectrum.
- (chemistry) The pattern of absorption or emission of radiation produced by a substance when subjected to energy (radiation, heat, electricity, etc.).
- (mathematics, linear algebra) The set of eigenvalues of a matrix.
- (mathematics, functional analysis) Of a bounded linear operator A, the set of scalar values ? such that the operator A—?I, where I denotes the identity operator, does not have a bounded inverse; intended as a generalisation of the linear algebra sense.
- (abstract algebra, algebraic geometry) The set, denoted Spec(R), of all prime ideals of a given ring R, commonly augmented with a Zariski topology and considered as a topological space.
- Hyponym: Stone space
- (obsolete) Specter, apparition. [from early 17th c.]
- The image of something seen that persists after the eyes are closed.
Derived terms
- cepstrum
- light spectrum
- spectro-
- spectrum disorder
- political spectrum
Related terms
- spectral
Translations
Anagrams
- cepstrum, crumpets
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin spectrum (“appearance, image, apparition”), from speci? (“look at, view”).
Pronunciation
Noun
spectrum n (plural spectrums or spectra, diminutive spectrumpje n)
- spectrum
Derived terms
- spectraal
- spectroscoop
Latin
Etymology
From spec(i?) (“look at, behold”) +? -trum. Confer with speculum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?spek.trum/, [?s?p?kt?????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?spek.trum/, [?sp?kt??um]
Noun
spectrum n (genitive spectr?); second declension
- appearance, image
- apparition, specter
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Related terms
- speci?
- specti?
- spect?
Descendants
- Catalan: espectre
- Dutch: spectrum
- English: spectre, specter; spectrum
- French: spectre
- German: Spektrum
- Irish: speictream
- Italian: spettro
- Portuguese: espectro
- Romanian: spectru
- Russian: ?????? (spektr)
- Spanish: espectro
- Swedish: spektrum
References
- spectrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- spectrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spectrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- spectrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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