WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
contin′uous spec′trum, [Physics.]
- Physicsa spectrum apparently having all wavelengths over a comparatively wide range, usually characteristic of solids and other substances at high temperatures. Cf. band spectrum, line spectrum, spectral line.
- 1900–05
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