VISIBLE SPECTRUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visible spectrum mean? 

• VISIBLE SPECTRUM (noun)
  The noun VISIBLE SPECTRUM has 1 sense:

1. the distribution of colors produced when light is dispersed by a prism

  Familiarity information: VISIBLE SPECTRUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISIBLE SPECTRUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The distribution of colors produced when light is dispersed by a prism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

color spectrum; visible spectrum

Hypernyms ("visible spectrum" is a kind of...):

spectrum (an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave)

Holonyms ("visible spectrum" is a part of...):

electromagnetic spectrum (the entire frequency range of electromagnetic waves)

 Context examples 

An assessment used to quantify and describe the colors within the visible spectrum of light.

(Colorimetry, NCI Thesaurus)

He discovered that they changed colors to the point that they could be identified with an analysis of the visible spectrum.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

Any of series of proprietary fluorescent dyes that span the visible spectrum.

(Alexa Fluor, NCI Thesaurus)

With our device, every pixel contains data points from across the visible spectrum, so we can acquire detailed information far beyond the colours which our eyes can perceive.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

This process excites dissolved metals, thereby causing them to emit radiation in both the UV and visible spectrum.

(Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer, NCI Thesaurus)

The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between red and yellow, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 590 to 630 nanometers; any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue, of medium lightness and moderate saturation.

(Orange, NCI Thesaurus)

The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky.

(Blue, NCI Thesaurus)

The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass.

(Green, NCI Thesaurus)

The Cambridge team, working with colleagues from the UK, China and Finland, used a nanowire whose material composition is varied along its length, enabling it to be responsive to different colours of light across the visible spectrum.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

By taking a close look with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the research team was able to identify a distinct absorption in the visible spectrum at 450 nanometers, which matched the irradiated salt precisely, confirming that the yellow color of Tara Regio reflected the presence of irradiated sodium chloride on the surface.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)