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Visible spectrum   /vˈɪzəbəl spˈɛktrəm/   Listen
Visible spectrum

noun
1.
The distribution of colors produced when light is dispersed by a prism.  Synonym: color spectrum.





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... of the visible spectrum, however, there are waves still longer and shorter, incapable of arousing the retina, though the very long waves, beyond the red, arouse the sensation of warmth from the skin, and the very short waves, beyond the violet, though arousing none of the senses, do effect the photographic plate. ...
— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth
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... in Auriga was announced, in February, 1892, astronomers were better prepared to observe it spectroscopically, as it was now possible by means of photography to study the ultra-violet part of the spectrum which to the eye is invisible. The visible spectrum was very like that of Nova Cygni of 1876, but when the wave-lengths of all the bright lines seen and photographed at the Lick Observatory and at Potsdam were measured, a strong resemblance to the ...
— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball
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Words linked to "Visible spectrum" :   electromagnetic spectrum, spectrum


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