solar spectrum

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• spectrum

  spectrum, i, n. [specio], an appearance , form , image of a thing; an apparition , spectre , th...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• spectrum

  spectrum ī, n SPEC-, an appearance, form, image, apparition, spectre : quae Democritusεἴδωλα, Cati...

  An Elementary Latin Dictionary

• Spectrum

  ·noun An apparition; a specter. II. Spectrum ·noun The several colored and other rays of which ligh...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• spectrum

  The variously coloured image into which a ray of light is divided on being passed through a prism. ...

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• Solar

  ·adj A loft or upper chamber; a garret room. II. Solar ·adj Born under the predominant influence of...

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• solar

  an upper chamber or loft ; from the Latin SOLARIUM. S. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Solar myth

  ·add. ·- A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the sun's course, moti...

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• Solar parallax

  ·add. ·- The parallax of the sun, that is, the angle subtended at the sun by the semidiameter of the...

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• luni-solar

  A chronological term; it is the moon's cycle multiplied into that of the sun. ...

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• solar day

  Is the interval which elapses between two successive meridian transits of the sun, and is the unit o...

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• solar spots

  See maculæ. ...

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• solar system

  The sun, planets, and comets, which are assumed to form a system, independent of the surrounding fix...

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• luni-solar precession

  See precession of the equinoxes. ...

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