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- English Word Spectant Definition Looking forward.
- English Word Spectation Definition Regard; aspect; appearance.
- English Word Spectator Definition One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show.
- English Word Spectatorial Definition Of or pertaining to a spectator.
- English Word Spectatorship Definition The office or quality of a spectator.
- English Word Spectatorship Definition The act of beholding.
- English Word Spectatress Definition Alt. of Spectatrix
- English Word Spectatrix Definition A female beholder or looker-on.
- English Word Specter Definition Alt. of Spectre
- English Word Spectioneer Definition Same as Specsioneer.
- English Word Spectra Definition of Spectrum
- English Word Spectral Definition Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty.
- English Word Spectral Definition Of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis.
- English Word Spectrally Definition In the form or manner of a specter.
- English Word Spectre Definition Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.
- English Word Spectre Definition The tarsius.
- English Word Spectre Definition A stick insect.
- English Word Spectre Definition See Specter.
- English Word Spectrological Definition Of or pertaining to spectrology; as, spectrological studies or experiments.
- English Word Spectrology Definition The science of spectrum analysis in any or all of its relations and applications.
- English Word Spectrometer Definition A spectroscope fitted for measurements of the luminious spectra observed with it.
- English Word Spectrophotometer Definition An instrument for measuring or comparing the intensites of the colors of the spectrum.
- English Word Spectroscope Definition An optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance.
- English Word Spectroscopic Definition Alt. of Spectroscopical
- English Word Spectroscopical Definition Of or pertaining to a spectroscope, or spectroscopy.
- English Word Spectroscopist Definition One who investigates by means of a spectroscope; one skilled in the use of the spectroscope.
- English Word Spectroscopy Definition The use of the spectroscope; investigations made with the spectroscope.
- English Word Spectrum Definition An apparition; a specter.
- English Word Spectrum Definition The several colored and other rays of which light is composed, separated by the refraction of a prism or other means, and observed or studied either as spread out on a screen, by direct vision, by photography, or otherwise. See Illust. of Light, and Spectroscope.
- English Word Spectrum Definition A luminous appearance, or an image seen after the eye has been exposed to an intense light or a strongly illuminated object. When the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper. Called also ocular spectrum.