spectrum

In a sentence

Six example sentences with spectrum, each labelled with its topic.

• Passing sunlight through a prism spreads it into a spectrum, and the dark lines reveal which gases the light crossed.

  Science

• An engineer watches the spectrum on screen while mixing, cutting the harsh band around three kilohertz before the vocal is finished.

  Music

• Infrared film records a spectrum the eye cannot see, turning summer foliage a startling white in every landscape frame.

  Photography

• Radio engineers divide the spectrum into bands, and each frequency range is licensed to one service so signals do not overlap.

  Technology

• Greenhouse growers tune LED lamps to the part of the spectrum leaves absorb, saving power on the colors plants ignore.

  Environment

• Governments raise billions auctioning slices of the radio spectrum, each band a range of frequencies carriers may transmit on.

  Economics

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