Noun: spectrum
| Singular | spectrum |
| Plural | spectra; spectrums |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonyms: sliding scale, continuum
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As Mr. Obama prepared to take the oath, his approval rating touched a remarkable 70 percent in some polling — a reflection of good will across the political spectrum. [2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:]
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Current 3G technologies can send roughly 1 bit of data - a one or a zero - per second over each 1 Hz of spectrum that the operator owns. [2010 October 30, Jim Giles, “Jammed!”, in New Scientist:]
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He punctuated his words with a look into my eyes that might have been read as threatening or menacing by anyone who was not on the spectrum. But I am on the spectrum, and so I stared back at him. [2022, Percival Everett, Dr. No, Influx Press (2023), page 110:]
Nouns inflected like spectrum
septum,
sacrum,
scutum,
signum,
philtrum,
effluvium,
preferendum,
tricennium,
fenestrum,
prooemium,
pseudoperidium,
vomitorium,
gubernium,
protocerebrum,
addendum,
pallium,
pabulum,
refugium,
decorum,
fumigatorium, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
4. Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
5. Proto-Italic *spekjō
6. Latin speciō
7. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
8. Proto-Indo-European *-trom
9. Proto-Italic *-trom
10. Latin -trum
11. Latin spectrumbor.
12. English spectrum
13. From Latin spectrum (“appearance, image, apparition”), from speciō (“look at, view”). Doublet of specter. See also scope. See: Latin Nouns '
spectrum'.
Verbs referencing "spectrum"
German Nouns
Spektrum.