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		Definition of spectrum in English: spectrumnounPlural spectra, Plural spectrums ˈspɛktrəmˈspɛktrəm 1A band of colours, as seen in a rainbow, produced by separation of the components of light by their different degrees of refraction according to wavelength. 谱,光谱 Example sentencesExamples -  Thus, in the instance above cited, they have discovered the black lines which always exist in the spectrum of solar colours given by a glass prism, in the same relative places.
 -  Visible light consists of a ‘rainbow’ or spectrum of electromagnetic waves of different wavelengths.
 -  He is shown seated before his famous invention: a ruling machine for producing concave diffraction gratings, which are slightly curved metal plates scored with minutely spaced lines that diffract light into spectra.
 -  She wore a flowing robe of reflective black cloth with a special surface that made it reflect light in a brilliant spectrum of colors.
 -  Prismatic refraction shows us the spectrum flashing out of a sort of nothing, which suggests a possible return into a single all-containing invisible source.
 -  His head cocked to the side as he studied the light that bounced from the back of some of them in a rainbow spectrum.
 -  The crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, sending sparkles across the walls, rainbow spectra around the atmosphere were enchanting her in every way.
 -  The lights quickly alternated between blindingly bright and soothingly dimmed, while the reflective surfaces refracted lasers into spectra of color.
 -  Their blossoms encompass nearly the entire color spectrum and blooming times range from early spring to fall, depending on the variety.
 -  He has used the spectrum of colours in the rainbow effectively to create an atmosphere of calm.
 -  If viewed through a prism, however, there is a decomposition of the light into the colors of the spectrum, each with different wavelengths.
 -  The screen is made with a patented grading, much like the ones used by scientists to view the visible light spectrum in its component colors.
 -  Instead, new research finds that sexual orientations exist along a continuum, like colors in the spectrum of a rainbow.
 -  A myriad of colors and textures, expertly placed, well lit candles, sending spectra of light cascading off elegantly woven rugs hanging on the walls.
 
 - 1.1the spectrum The entire range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation.
波谱 Example sentencesExamples -  What's more, because the new light source produces white light by mixing blue, green and red, the source can emit any color in the spectrum by varying the mix.
 -  The other great problem of glass envelopes is their transparency not only to light, but to much of the electro-magnetic spectrum.
 -  The backdrop of sky passes through the entire color spectrum in seamless gradation from violet and indigo above through queasy green and luminous gold to a deep, luscious red below.
 -  In the meantime over twenty presentations internationally have moved to show that across the spectrum electromagnetic fields are genotoxic, that is they damage DNA.
 -  Light, the diet of eyes, constitutes a tiny part of the entire spectrum of electromagnetic radiation.
 -  All the pigments absorb light energy to be used by the leaf, but each absorbs only a particular range of wavelengths, or part of the spectrum.
 -  The unaided eye is sensitive to just one octave out of the vast spectrum of electromagnetic radiation that exists in the universe.
 -  Although many of them boast about how much protection they provide, according to Vanessa they will usually not cover the entire UV spectrum.
 -  Also of note is the way in which Melville shaded the entire film towards the blue end of the spectrum.
 -  But apricot can add a spring-like touch as well, since it falls more in the yellow-orange range of the spectrum.
 -  They determine which part of the spectrum would be absorbed and which would pass through unhindered.
 -  The lens filters out the blue range of the spectrum, thereby making subaquatic colors look normal.
 -  It operates in the visible and near-infrared range of the spectrum.
 
  - 1.2 A characteristic series of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation emitted or absorbed by a substance.
Example sentencesExamples -  The measurement of the wavelengths of light that are absorbed by the substance can be used to produce an absorbance spectrum of the substance.
 -  For those outside the field, an NMR spectrum of a typical organic molecule is a rather complex linear plot of multiple lines and peaks.
 -  Results were derived from the comparative interpretation of the conventional EEG results and the frequency spectra data, for both the experimental and control subjects.
 -  Extensive collections of infrared spectra, X - ray diffraction patterns and chromatograms will also be digitized and uploaded.
 -  Some nebulae give spectra that look like a star's, and she was familiar with them, but the Orion Nebula gave quite a different spectrum - just a single bright green line.
 -  Using a spectrometer, the transmittance spectrum is measured in a number of small regions in a stained tissue slide.
 -  He began to classify all the known nebulae and to measure their velocities from the spectra of their emitted light.
 -  Purified lipid-DNA adducts had a characteristic fluorescent spectra and showed a decrease of hyperchromicity and melting point.
 -  But differences in spectra led some to suspect that single bubble sonoluminescence was a distinct process from the multibubble variety.
 -  Already, researchers are working on satellites that can read the unique color spectrums emitted by people's skin and cameras that can tell whether people are lying by how frequently they blink.
 -  One method they use, fluorescence spectroscopy, involves recording optical spectra from molecules absorbing and emitting light.
 -  At that point, the differences in reflected light, or spectra, of female and male pupae were most apparent.
 -  This offers the option of an FFT frequency analysis to view the spectrum of the raw signal or of the distortion analyzer's residual output.
 -  The chemical bonds in Prussian blue produce a unique spectrum with FTIR analysis that can be easily distinguished from all other pigments.
 -  It should be noted that immunoglobulins often can be found throughout the electrophoretic spectrum.
 -  Indeed the IR spectrum of the polymer before extrusion and after balloon manufacturing is the same.
 -  Since acupuncture points on the same meridian have similar therapeutic effects, they might be expected to have similar effects on the frequency spectrum of the arterial pulse.
 -  We want a library of spectra from different cell types and their cancers.
 -  The adsorption and emission of spectra characteristic of atoms also suggested that they were due to the oscillations of charged particles on the atomic or sub-atomic scale.
 -  Experimentally, infrared absorption spectra are obtained using infrared spectrometers.
 
  - 1.3 The components of a sound or other phenomenon arranged according to such characteristics as frequency, charge, and energy.
频谱 Example sentencesExamples -  Radio spectrum can also be mapped in other ways, onto territory.
 -  The EEG frequency spectra were derived from 30 second samples that were digitized at a rate of 330 Hz, resulting in 9900 points.
 -  This means certain groups of atoms have similar energies, so have similar vibrational spectra.
 -  The height of the spectrum indicates the extent of that frequency's contribution to the variance of the growth rate.
 -  Small, but significant, differences are noted between the rate spectra at both pH.
 -  The properties ascribed to electrons, for instance, such as their charge and half-integral spin, were themselves responses to quite specific experimental findings involving discharge tube phenomena and spectra.
 -  Cross-correlation analysis on EEG spectra and performance time series were carried out for a single participant.
 -  The radio has 256 channels and emits spectrum signals that create noise, making the communication difficult to detect.
 
  
 2Used to classify something in terms of its position on a scale between two extreme points. 范围  the left or the right of the political spectrum 政治领域里的左派和右派。 Example sentencesExamples -  This past weekend I found myself stuck in a random debate with two people who were at one extreme end of the classic political spectrum.
 -  ‘They will have to tell the people what exactly their position is in the political spectrum,’ he said.
 -  There are a few on the way - on the right end of the spectrum politically, the extreme right wing, that want to keep it up there.
 -  Journalists, across the political spectrum, publicized their position in the newspapers.
 -  Modern biology has come to occupy an extreme position in the spectrum of the sciences, dominated by historical explanations of the evolutionary adventures of genes.
 -  Not bad for a man whose position on the political spectrum is roughly a million miles left to that of the average Irish voter.
 -  But, largely thanks to the Blairite project, the gap that separates the Tories and Labour has dramatically moved its position on the political spectrum.
 -  And moving to the extreme end of the spectrum, Ziv began playing at trance parties.
 -  This auction covers the whole spectrum in terms of the type of lots on offer and the estimates assigned them.
 -  Normally when giving advice one doesn't just assume that the recipient of the advice falls at the extreme of the spectrum for the field being discussed.
 -  My characters and I share a similar esteem for the middle-ground, between indulgence and obligation, and any extremes of the spectrum.
 -  These candidates accepted positions covering the full spectrum of jobs within a high-technology firm.
 -  You have two movies on extreme ends of the spectrum.
 -  As I've suggested, they constitute a spectrum or a scale along which people take either more determined or less enthusiastic positions.
 -  Starck adds that he works for both extremes of the monetary spectrum, and that his work for ‘wealthy clients’ allows him greater freedom to design for the masses.
 -  Other parties occupy various positions on the political spectrum.
 -  I recognise that these organisations are not banned as being unconstitutional but I accept the evidence of Funke that they and their members are on the extreme right of the political spectrum.
 -  On the other side of the political spectrum, conservatives find themselves in the position of lauding feminism as a hallmark of Western superiority.
 -  If Churchill is so violently attacked by both extremes of the political spectrum, we can assume that he cannot have been that bad.
 -  I think it is bad for Chardonnay and it is bad for the wine industry to use that term to describe a part of the political spectrum.
 
 - 2.1 A wide range.
大范围;大幅度  self-help books are covering a broader and broader spectrum 指导自己动手的书籍涉及越来越广的范围。 Example sentencesExamples -  But what I think is interesting is, there's a wide spectrum of opinion about involvement in Africa, and this certainly represents it.
 -  Polycystic ovarian diseases have a wide spectrum of symptoms.
 -  The point is we felt that all agencies had a fair opportunity to sell the property, that we tapped a wide spectrum of potential buyers, and came out of the deal satisfied with the overall marketing effort.
 -  You've seen their work in a wide spectrum of venues ranging from Fast Forward to Time magazine, and now you can see it in person.
 -  Economic geography supposedly has a wide spectrum of subjects, ranging from agrarian and pastoral economies to resource utilization and changes in land use.
 -  Used bookstores offer a wide spectrum of genres, with best-selling novels published last year sharing the shelf with explorer's tales published over 100 years ago.
 -  Since the 1980s, however, a wide spectrum of Latin American opinion has come to recognize the value of democratic governance.
 -  Over the three days of public hearings the board heard from a wide spectrum of people supporting the applications and a small number of local residents and business owners who opposed them.
 -  We in our laboratories at CDC use a wide spectrum of tests.
 -  The budding writers touched upon a wide spectrum of issues ranging from suspense, fantasy, ghosts, sporting rivalry to philosophy and science fiction.
 -  I have read a wide spectrum of theories and history, ranging from Marx to Mises.
 -  HBV can cause a wide spectrum of symptoms ranging from general malaise to chronic liver disease that can lead to liver cancer.
 -  In addition to the Internet, IT covers a wide spectrum of devices ranging from embedded microprocessors to supercomputers.
 -  ‘Once you are fascinated by one aspect of wildlife, you soon get attracted to the wider spectrum of wildlife,’ he says.
 -  Interests range across a wide spectrum of sports, politics, environment, fine art, drama and community action.
 -  Albeit there is a wide spectrum of orthodoxy, ranging from the devout to those who ignore the Gods.
 -  The broad scope of the show encompasses a wide spectrum of artistic styles and printmaking techniques ranging from the traditional to the innovative and modern.
 -  They play a range of great music that covers a wide spectrum and their spin makes it all the more worthwhile.
 -  If he eventually wrests control of the orphans' committee, Bertrand promises to fight for more cash compensation for a wider spectrum of victims of religious abuse.
 -  This sense is uniting a wide spectrum of individuals and groups in asking questions not just about the so-called war on terrorism, but also about the nature of U.S. democracy.
 
 Synonyms range, gamut, sweep, scope, span scale variety compass, orbit, ambit  
 
 OriginEarly 17th century (in the sense 'spectre'): from Latin, literally 'image, apparition', from specere 'to look'.    Definition of spectrum in US English: spectrumnounˈspektrəmˈspɛktrəm 1A band of colors, as seen in a rainbow, produced by separation of the components of light by their different degrees of refraction according to wavelength. 谱,光谱 Example sentencesExamples -  Thus, in the instance above cited, they have discovered the black lines which always exist in the spectrum of solar colours given by a glass prism, in the same relative places.
 -  She wore a flowing robe of reflective black cloth with a special surface that made it reflect light in a brilliant spectrum of colors.
 -  He has used the spectrum of colours in the rainbow effectively to create an atmosphere of calm.
 -  He is shown seated before his famous invention: a ruling machine for producing concave diffraction gratings, which are slightly curved metal plates scored with minutely spaced lines that diffract light into spectra.
 -  If viewed through a prism, however, there is a decomposition of the light into the colors of the spectrum, each with different wavelengths.
 -  His head cocked to the side as he studied the light that bounced from the back of some of them in a rainbow spectrum.
 -  Prismatic refraction shows us the spectrum flashing out of a sort of nothing, which suggests a possible return into a single all-containing invisible source.
 -  The lights quickly alternated between blindingly bright and soothingly dimmed, while the reflective surfaces refracted lasers into spectra of color.
 -  Instead, new research finds that sexual orientations exist along a continuum, like colors in the spectrum of a rainbow.
 -  The crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, sending sparkles across the walls, rainbow spectra around the atmosphere were enchanting her in every way.
 -  A myriad of colors and textures, expertly placed, well lit candles, sending spectra of light cascading off elegantly woven rugs hanging on the walls.
 -  Visible light consists of a ‘rainbow’ or spectrum of electromagnetic waves of different wavelengths.
 -  The screen is made with a patented grading, much like the ones used by scientists to view the visible light spectrum in its component colors.
 -  Their blossoms encompass nearly the entire color spectrum and blooming times range from early spring to fall, depending on the variety.
 
 - 1.1the spectrum The entire range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation.
波谱 Example sentencesExamples -  What's more, because the new light source produces white light by mixing blue, green and red, the source can emit any color in the spectrum by varying the mix.
 -  In the meantime over twenty presentations internationally have moved to show that across the spectrum electromagnetic fields are genotoxic, that is they damage DNA.
 -  Also of note is the way in which Melville shaded the entire film towards the blue end of the spectrum.
 -  The backdrop of sky passes through the entire color spectrum in seamless gradation from violet and indigo above through queasy green and luminous gold to a deep, luscious red below.
 -  The unaided eye is sensitive to just one octave out of the vast spectrum of electromagnetic radiation that exists in the universe.
 -  But apricot can add a spring-like touch as well, since it falls more in the yellow-orange range of the spectrum.
 -  All the pigments absorb light energy to be used by the leaf, but each absorbs only a particular range of wavelengths, or part of the spectrum.
 -  They determine which part of the spectrum would be absorbed and which would pass through unhindered.
 -  The other great problem of glass envelopes is their transparency not only to light, but to much of the electro-magnetic spectrum.
 -  The lens filters out the blue range of the spectrum, thereby making subaquatic colors look normal.
 -  Although many of them boast about how much protection they provide, according to Vanessa they will usually not cover the entire UV spectrum.
 -  It operates in the visible and near-infrared range of the spectrum.
 -  Light, the diet of eyes, constitutes a tiny part of the entire spectrum of electromagnetic radiation.
 
  - 1.2 An image or distribution of components of any electromagnetic radiation arranged in a progressive series according to wavelength.
电磁波谱 Example sentencesExamples -  Some nebulae give spectra that look like a star's, and she was familiar with them, but the Orion Nebula gave quite a different spectrum - just a single bright green line.
 -  Experimentally, infrared absorption spectra are obtained using infrared spectrometers.
 -  Already, researchers are working on satellites that can read the unique color spectrums emitted by people's skin and cameras that can tell whether people are lying by how frequently they blink.
 -  One method they use, fluorescence spectroscopy, involves recording optical spectra from molecules absorbing and emitting light.
 -  This offers the option of an FFT frequency analysis to view the spectrum of the raw signal or of the distortion analyzer's residual output.
 -  But differences in spectra led some to suspect that single bubble sonoluminescence was a distinct process from the multibubble variety.
 -  The adsorption and emission of spectra characteristic of atoms also suggested that they were due to the oscillations of charged particles on the atomic or sub-atomic scale.
 -  It should be noted that immunoglobulins often can be found throughout the electrophoretic spectrum.
 -  The chemical bonds in Prussian blue produce a unique spectrum with FTIR analysis that can be easily distinguished from all other pigments.
 -  Since acupuncture points on the same meridian have similar therapeutic effects, they might be expected to have similar effects on the frequency spectrum of the arterial pulse.
 -  Using a spectrometer, the transmittance spectrum is measured in a number of small regions in a stained tissue slide.
 -  Results were derived from the comparative interpretation of the conventional EEG results and the frequency spectra data, for both the experimental and control subjects.
 -  For those outside the field, an NMR spectrum of a typical organic molecule is a rather complex linear plot of multiple lines and peaks.
 -  At that point, the differences in reflected light, or spectra, of female and male pupae were most apparent.
 -  Purified lipid-DNA adducts had a characteristic fluorescent spectra and showed a decrease of hyperchromicity and melting point.
 -  The measurement of the wavelengths of light that are absorbed by the substance can be used to produce an absorbance spectrum of the substance.
 -  We want a library of spectra from different cell types and their cancers.
 -  Indeed the IR spectrum of the polymer before extrusion and after balloon manufacturing is the same.
 -  Extensive collections of infrared spectra, X - ray diffraction patterns and chromatograms will also be digitized and uploaded.
 -  He began to classify all the known nebulae and to measure their velocities from the spectra of their emitted light.
 
  - 1.3 An image or distribution of components of sound, particles, etc., arranged according to such characteristics as frequency, charge, and energy.
频谱 Example sentencesExamples -  The properties ascribed to electrons, for instance, such as their charge and half-integral spin, were themselves responses to quite specific experimental findings involving discharge tube phenomena and spectra.
 -  This means certain groups of atoms have similar energies, so have similar vibrational spectra.
 -  Radio spectrum can also be mapped in other ways, onto territory.
 -  Cross-correlation analysis on EEG spectra and performance time series were carried out for a single participant.
 -  The radio has 256 channels and emits spectrum signals that create noise, making the communication difficult to detect.
 -  The height of the spectrum indicates the extent of that frequency's contribution to the variance of the growth rate.
 -  The EEG frequency spectra were derived from 30 second samples that were digitized at a rate of 330 Hz, resulting in 9900 points.
 -  Small, but significant, differences are noted between the rate spectra at both pH.
 
  
 2Used to classify something, or suggest that it can be classified, in terms of its position on a scale between two extreme or opposite points. 范围  the left or the right of the political spectrum 政治领域里的左派和右派。 Example sentencesExamples -  But, largely thanks to the Blairite project, the gap that separates the Tories and Labour has dramatically moved its position on the political spectrum.
 -  This past weekend I found myself stuck in a random debate with two people who were at one extreme end of the classic political spectrum.
 -  On the other side of the political spectrum, conservatives find themselves in the position of lauding feminism as a hallmark of Western superiority.
 -  ‘They will have to tell the people what exactly their position is in the political spectrum,’ he said.
 -  I think it is bad for Chardonnay and it is bad for the wine industry to use that term to describe a part of the political spectrum.
 -  If Churchill is so violently attacked by both extremes of the political spectrum, we can assume that he cannot have been that bad.
 -  Journalists, across the political spectrum, publicized their position in the newspapers.
 -  And moving to the extreme end of the spectrum, Ziv began playing at trance parties.
 -  Not bad for a man whose position on the political spectrum is roughly a million miles left to that of the average Irish voter.
 -  Starck adds that he works for both extremes of the monetary spectrum, and that his work for ‘wealthy clients’ allows him greater freedom to design for the masses.
 -  These candidates accepted positions covering the full spectrum of jobs within a high-technology firm.
 -  My characters and I share a similar esteem for the middle-ground, between indulgence and obligation, and any extremes of the spectrum.
 -  Modern biology has come to occupy an extreme position in the spectrum of the sciences, dominated by historical explanations of the evolutionary adventures of genes.
 -  There are a few on the way - on the right end of the spectrum politically, the extreme right wing, that want to keep it up there.
 -  This auction covers the whole spectrum in terms of the type of lots on offer and the estimates assigned them.
 -  Other parties occupy various positions on the political spectrum.
 -  You have two movies on extreme ends of the spectrum.
 -  As I've suggested, they constitute a spectrum or a scale along which people take either more determined or less enthusiastic positions.
 -  Normally when giving advice one doesn't just assume that the recipient of the advice falls at the extreme of the spectrum for the field being discussed.
 -  I recognise that these organisations are not banned as being unconstitutional but I accept the evidence of Funke that they and their members are on the extreme right of the political spectrum.
 
 - 2.1 A wide range.
大范围;大幅度  self-help books are covering a broader and broader spectrum 指导自己动手的书籍涉及越来越广的范围。 Example sentencesExamples -  Interests range across a wide spectrum of sports, politics, environment, fine art, drama and community action.
 -  Polycystic ovarian diseases have a wide spectrum of symptoms.
 -  In addition to the Internet, IT covers a wide spectrum of devices ranging from embedded microprocessors to supercomputers.
 -  The point is we felt that all agencies had a fair opportunity to sell the property, that we tapped a wide spectrum of potential buyers, and came out of the deal satisfied with the overall marketing effort.
 -  But what I think is interesting is, there's a wide spectrum of opinion about involvement in Africa, and this certainly represents it.
 -  I have read a wide spectrum of theories and history, ranging from Marx to Mises.
 -  You've seen their work in a wide spectrum of venues ranging from Fast Forward to Time magazine, and now you can see it in person.
 -  If he eventually wrests control of the orphans' committee, Bertrand promises to fight for more cash compensation for a wider spectrum of victims of religious abuse.
 -  Since the 1980s, however, a wide spectrum of Latin American opinion has come to recognize the value of democratic governance.
 -  Over the three days of public hearings the board heard from a wide spectrum of people supporting the applications and a small number of local residents and business owners who opposed them.
 -  ‘Once you are fascinated by one aspect of wildlife, you soon get attracted to the wider spectrum of wildlife,’ he says.
 -  The broad scope of the show encompasses a wide spectrum of artistic styles and printmaking techniques ranging from the traditional to the innovative and modern.
 -  Economic geography supposedly has a wide spectrum of subjects, ranging from agrarian and pastoral economies to resource utilization and changes in land use.
 -  The budding writers touched upon a wide spectrum of issues ranging from suspense, fantasy, ghosts, sporting rivalry to philosophy and science fiction.
 -  Albeit there is a wide spectrum of orthodoxy, ranging from the devout to those who ignore the Gods.
 -  HBV can cause a wide spectrum of symptoms ranging from general malaise to chronic liver disease that can lead to liver cancer.
 -  This sense is uniting a wide spectrum of individuals and groups in asking questions not just about the so-called war on terrorism, but also about the nature of U.S. democracy.
 -  We in our laboratories at CDC use a wide spectrum of tests.
 -  They play a range of great music that covers a wide spectrum and their spin makes it all the more worthwhile.
 -  Used bookstores offer a wide spectrum of genres, with best-selling novels published last year sharing the shelf with explorer's tales published over 100 years ago.
 
 Synonyms range, gamut, sweep, scope, span  
 
 OriginEarly 17th century (in the sense ‘specter’): from Latin, literally ‘image, apparition’, from specere ‘to look’.     |