Noun, : the spectrum of political beliefs. From Dictionary.com.
The plans spectra& spectra plus offer global life insurance coverage and global payout. From Wordnik.com. [AMEinfo.com Latest News] Reference
But at distances of many light years the signals, from light wavelength patterns called spectra, are very faint and difficult to read. From Wordnik.com. [Latest news breaking news current news UK news world news celebrity news politics news] Reference
The characteristic feature of their spectra is the strength and breadth of the hydrogen lines and the extreme faintness of the metallic lines. From Wordnik.com. [History of Astronomy] Reference
That in these experiments the colours of the spectra are the reverse of the colours which occasioned them, may be seen by examining the third figure in. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
It has you gripping and jumping (hence, grimp, the name of your tiny creature) from stylized vine to stylized stem, collecting "spectra" in order to grow your garden. From Wordnik.com. [1UP RSS feed] Reference
At that early time our knowledge of stellar spectra was small. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
We shall illustrate some of the leading characteristics of these spectra as in. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Stellar spectra containing bright lines seem always to include hydrogen bright lines. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The illustration, Fig. 17, brings out the principal features of the spectra of Classes. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The spectra of the stars likewise testify to the universality of our concepts in chemistry. From Wordnik.com. [The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session] Reference
Bunsenflame, or by observation of their spectra, when two characteristic green lines are seen. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
His program includes 164 such systems whose types of spectra are known, as in the following table. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
When we apply the spectroscope to celestial objects we find apparently an endless variety of spectra. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The bright lines of helium are extremely rare in stars, but they have been observed in a few stellar spectra. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
If two colors of the spectra are, by suitable arrangement, brought exactly in line, then the others will be out. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference
Their spectra consist of a few bright lines revealing the presence of hydrogen, nitrogen, and other gaseous elements. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
It is not intended to give the impression that only a few types of spectra are in evidence: the variety is very great. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
A few hundred stellar spectra resembling this description are well known, discovered mostly at the Harvard Observatory. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The 37726A line, like the nebulium line, is unknown in stellar spectra; it seems also to be confined to true nebulosity. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Paste (lead glass) gives fairly vivid spectra, and they are single like those from diamond, as glass is singly refracting. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
All the almandine garnets which I have examined, and nearly all the jargoons, show these characteristic absorption spectra. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
With a diamond the spectra will be very brilliant and of vivid coloring, and the red will be widely separated from the blue. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
Their spectra present a banded or columnar appearance, and there is greater absorption, especially of the blue rays of light. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Secchi in the late 60's classified the spectra of the brighter stars, according to the absorption lines in their spectra, into. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Their spectra are only imperfectly known in a few cases, and the bearing of the absorption on the life-history is still a mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The metallic lines are in Class G spectra in great number and intensity, and the hydrogen lines are greatly reduced in prominence. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
A few of the stars whose spectra contain bright hydrogen lines have also a number of bright lines whose chemical origin is not known. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The idea was to image the entire sky in depth, identify hundreds of thousands of galaxies and quasars, and obtain spectra for them all. From Wordnik.com. [To Infinity . . .] Reference
Indeed, why do not the elements so conspicuously present in the atmosphere of the red stars show in the spectra of the gaseous nebulae?. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
If you mean has a natural sensitivity to the tension spectra coupled itself with some years of practice in observing people -- then yes. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking Point] Reference
Their spectra are further marked by absorption bands of titanium oxide, which reach their maximum strength in the later subdivisions of Class M. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Slipher has recently found that the spectra of two small regions observed in this nebula are continuous, with absorption lines of hydrogen and helium. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Their spectra are almost totally lacking in violet light, the metallic absorption is very strong, and there are conspicuous absorption bands of carbon. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
In the next main division, the Class F spectra, the metallic lines increase rapidly in prominence, and the hydrogen lines decrease slightly in strength. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
This characteristic of the middle colours of the two spectra was expressed by Goethe when he called green 'real totality', and peach-blossom 'ideal totality'. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
To illustrate: the gases and vapors forming the outer strata of the Sun's atmosphere would in themselves produce bright-line spectra of the elements involved. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Mind, I don't quite sympathize with that comparison of St. Augustine's where he detects a resemblance between yon spectra of purple and green and the plumage of a dove. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Dr. Vogel has ascertained by a special system of photography in relation to the spectra of stars, that Rigel has a velocity away from the earth of nearly 39 miles per sec. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
The decolorized zircon (jargoon) has a dispersion well up toward that of diamond and gives fairly vivid spectra on a card, but they are double, as zircon is doubly refracting. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
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