wavelength spectrum
11wavelength — The distance between one peak or crest of a wave of light, heat, or other energy and the next corresponding peak or crest. In that light has qualities of waves, the various colors of the visible spectrum differ in the length of their waves,… …
12spectrum — noun (plural spectra trə) 1》 a band of colours produced by separation of the components of light by their different degrees of refraction according to wavelength, e.g. in a rainbow. ↘the entire range of wavelengths of electromagnetic… …
13spectrum — spec•trum [[t]ˈspɛk trəm[/t]] n. pl. tra( trə), trums. 1) phs a) an array of entities, as light waves or particles, ordered in accordance with the magnitudes of a common physical property, as wavelength or mass b) phs the band or series of colors …
14wavelength — Synonyms and related words: amplitude, antinode, carrier, carrier wave, crest, de Broglie wave, diffraction, electric wave, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, ground wave, guided wave,… …
15absorption spectrum — Spectrum of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation (usually visible and UV light) absorbed by substance. Absorption is determined by existence of atoms that can be excited from their ground state to an excited state by absorption of energy… …
16Electromagnetic spectrum — The electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is the range of all possible electromagnetic radiation frequencies. [cite web|url=http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/dict ei.html#em spectrum|title=Imagine the Universe! Dictionary] The electromagnetic spectrum… …
17Emission spectrum — The emission spectrum of a chemical element or chemical compound is the spectrum of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the element s atoms or the compound s molecules when they are returned to a lower energy state. Each element s …
18Dominant wavelength — Dominant/complementary wavelength example on the CIE color space The x marks the color in question. For the white point indicated, the dominant wavelength for x is on the nearer perimeter, around 600 nm, while the complementary wavelength is… …
19Visible spectrum — White light is dispersed by a prism into the colors of the optical spectrum. The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to (can be detected by) the human eye …
20electromagnetic spectrum — the entire spectrum, considered as a continuum, of all kinds of electric, magnetic, and visible radiation, from gamma rays having a wavelength of 0.001 angstrom to long waves having a wavelength of more than 1 million km. [1935 40] * * * Total… …
