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adjective ˈspɛktr(ə)lˈspɛktrəl Of or like a ghost. a spectral, menacing face Example sentencesExamples - Is she scared of conducting a ghost walk on the busiest night of the spectral calendar?
- The headlights cast an eerie spectral glow on the thick glades, the ever-imposing wall of pine that kept the highway embalmed from time itself.
- The night music of the third movement flickered with spectral glissandos and eerie harmonics.
- Is there a spectral patron at The Sandrock?
- It's brought the city welcome publicity hot on the spectral heels of the Ghost Festival.
- Haunted Land takes us from pre-history to modern times, from Shamanism, through the wild hunt of Europe, to witches, werewolves and vampires and ends with road ghosts, spectral figures and phantom hitch-hikers.
- Present castle incumbent Peter Frost-Pennington is a stoic, sensible Scot, who likes to keep an open mind on spectral matters, but readily admits a recent flurry in phantom phenomena has been pretty good for business.
Synonyms ghostly, wraithlike, shadowy, phantom, incorporeal, insubstantial, disembodied, unearthly, other-worldly ghastly, eerie, weird, uncanny informal spooky rare phantasmal, phantasmic
Derivatives adverb Another wonder is the Ghost Tree, its bare branches of the smoothness and colour of ivory curving skywards in supplication as it gleams spectrally in the dying light.
Origin Early 19th century: from spectre + -al. adjectiveˈspɛktr(ə)lˈspɛktrəl Of or concerning spectra or the spectrum. Example sentencesExamples - Little is known about this, but either or both of the quantity and spectral quality of light could conceivably be significant in various ways.
- The patterns to be copied and the blocks themselves are not finely detailed and the spectral differences between red and white sections are quite large.
- The principal steps in obtaining the spectral transmittance of specimens from these pictures are as follows.
- A laser is the generator of intense coherent, electromagnetic radiation in the spectral range between ultra violet and infrared wavelengths.
- The duration of reflectance spectral acquisition was less than 1 second during which the light source of the bronchoscope was switched off.
Derivatives adverb Verification of the correct breathing frequency of 12 breaths/min was made by visually counting the respiratory trace on the computer display panel as well as by spectrally decomposing the respiratory wave. Example sentencesExamples - The remaining artifact-free data were then spectrally analyzed using discrete Fourier transforms to yield power data for specific frequency bands.
Origin Mid 19th century: from spectrum + -al. adjectiveˈspɛktrəlˈspektrəl Of or like a ghost. a spectral, menacing face Example sentencesExamples - It's brought the city welcome publicity hot on the spectral heels of the Ghost Festival.
- Is there a spectral patron at The Sandrock?
- Haunted Land takes us from pre-history to modern times, from Shamanism, through the wild hunt of Europe, to witches, werewolves and vampires and ends with road ghosts, spectral figures and phantom hitch-hikers.
- The night music of the third movement flickered with spectral glissandos and eerie harmonics.
- The headlights cast an eerie spectral glow on the thick glades, the ever-imposing wall of pine that kept the highway embalmed from time itself.
- Present castle incumbent Peter Frost-Pennington is a stoic, sensible Scot, who likes to keep an open mind on spectral matters, but readily admits a recent flurry in phantom phenomena has been pretty good for business.
- Is she scared of conducting a ghost walk on the busiest night of the spectral calendar?
Synonyms ghostly, wraithlike, shadowy, phantom, incorporeal, insubstantial, disembodied, unearthly, other-worldly
Origin Early 19th century: from spectre + -al. adjectiveˈspɛktrəlˈspektrəl Of or concerning spectra or the spectrum. Example sentencesExamples - A laser is the generator of intense coherent, electromagnetic radiation in the spectral range between ultra violet and infrared wavelengths.
- The duration of reflectance spectral acquisition was less than 1 second during which the light source of the bronchoscope was switched off.
- The patterns to be copied and the blocks themselves are not finely detailed and the spectral differences between red and white sections are quite large.
- The principal steps in obtaining the spectral transmittance of specimens from these pictures are as follows.
- Little is known about this, but either or both of the quantity and spectral quality of light could conceivably be significant in various ways.
Origin Mid 19th century: from spectrum + -al. |