Need another word that means the same as “spectrum”? Find 5 synonyms and 30 related words for “spectrum” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Spectrum” are: range, gamut, sweep, scope, span
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “spectrum” as a noun can have the following definitions:
gamut | The lowest note in the gamut scale. The orchestral gamut. |
range | The scope of a person’s knowledge or abilities. The chimpanzee extensively overlaps the gorilla in its forest range. |
scope | A telescope microscope or other device having a name ending in scope. The scope for major change is always limited by political realities. |
span | The wingspan of an aircraft or a bird. An eight span bridge. |
sweep | A sweepstake. The sweep of the plains. |
ambit | An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control. A full discussion of this complex issue was beyond the ambit of one book. |
aurora | A natural electrical phenomenon characterized by the appearance of streamers of reddish or greenish light in the sky especially near the northern or southern magnetic pole The effect is caused by the interaction of charged particles from the sun with atoms in the upper atmosphere In northern and southern regions it is respectively called aurora borealis or Northern Lights and aurora australis or Southern Lights. |
breadth | The distance or measurement from side to side of something; width. The boat measured 27 feet in breadth. |
chain | A decorative chain worn round the neck as jewellery or as a badge of office. As an actuary you will not be chained to a desk. |
choice | The right or ability to choose. He had a few choice words at his command. |
concatenation | The act of linking together as in a series or chain. It was caused by an improbable concatenation of circumstances. |
delimit | Be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry. Agreements delimiting fishing zones. |
distribution | The spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume. Changes undergone by the area have affected the distribution of its wildlife. |
extent | The point or degree to which something extends. An enclosure ten acres in extent. |
grade | A relative position or degree of value in a graded group. She teaches first grade. |
illuminant | A means of lighting or source of light. Until 1880 oil was the only illuminant in use. |
light | Characterized by or emitting light. Can you shed light on this problem. |
measurement | The action of measuring something. The measurements were carefully done. |
mirage | Something illusory and unattainable. The hope of sanctuary initially proved a mirage. |
option | Buy or sell an option on. His second script will have been optioned by the time you read this. |
orbit | Move in an orbit. He s out of my orbit. |
radiation | Syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation e g exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases severe exposure can cause death within hours. The radiation dose. |
rainbow | An arch of colours visible in the sky caused by the refraction and dispersion of the sun s light by rain or other water droplets in the atmosphere The colours of the rainbow are generally said to be red orange yellow green blue indigo and violet. All the colours of the rainbow. |
range | Obtain the range of a target by adjustment after firing past it or short of it or by the use of radar or laser equipment. The army maintains a missile range in the desert. |
rover | A player who has a rover ball. A lunar rover. |
scope | Set the scope of a projected undertaking. Within the scope of an investigation. |
shimmer | Give off a shimmering reflection as of silk. The shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers. |
sky | Throw or toss with a light motion. Hundreds of stars were shining in the sky. |
straddle | Be noncommittal. The crew of a plane straddled the submarine with depth charges. |
suffuse | To become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light. His whole frame suffused with a cold dew. |
tether | Tie with a tether. Tether horses. |
tier | One of two or more layers one atop another. Tier upon tier of huge casks. |
ultraviolet | Of equipment or techniques using or concerned with ultraviolet radiation. An ultraviolet telescope. |
wavelength | A wavelength as a distinctive feature of radio waves from a transmitter. They are on the same wavelength. |
width | The extent of something from side to side. The width of experience required for these positions. |
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