Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a spectral manner; like a ghost or specter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In the form or manner of a specter.

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  • adverb In a spectral manner.

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Examples

  • For example, the department helped develop a technology called spectrally enhanced lighting that gives off light at wavelengths that mimic the sun.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • On opening night, an uncredited Renee Redding Jones, who was an original member of Evidence, appeared almost spectrally in white among the black-clad cast (stylishly costumed by Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya) at the end of "Lessons: Exotica/To Harm the Dangerous" (1995), joining the group like a calming ancestral presence.

    Earthly Figures in the Clouds Robert Greskovic 2011

  • Instead of acknowledging spectrum as the key issue, the FCC theorized that AT&T and T-Mobile could compete by "adding the more spectrally efficient LTE-capable radios and equipment to the network and then providing customers with dual-mode" devices.

    Dropped Call? Blame the FCC L. Gordon Crovitz 2011

  • As instance: dim shapes and shadowy forms would sometimes appear to him out of the night, and as they flitted spectrally past he would hear, as in a dream, the hunting cries of the pack; and, as his pulse quickened, his own hunting instinct would rouse until his controlled soft-howling in the song broke into eager whinings.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • Greg proved two things, the space defined by labor alone and the space defined by labor and height are spectrally invariant.

    Mankiw Defends his Tall Tale, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • If you have an idea of what the impact rate of this dusty material is, you can simulate the evolution of the rings over time and extrapolate how long it would take to start from some initial condition involving just ice and a very small fraction of some initially unknown native, spectrally absorbing material and get the coloring that we now see.

    SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Paul Estrada -- From Dust to Planets SETI Institute 2010

  • Maybe we should have a website related to spectrally invariant decompositons of economies.

    Mankiw Defends his Tall Tale, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • We also need more schools to convert to levels of education that spectrally educate all of our kids in fields that produce real-world humans ready to contribute to society and serve their needs as individuals and members of society better.

    Brian Ross: Rather than Race to the Top, We Should Have Started Fixing Education There 2010

  • We also need more schools to convert to levels of education that spectrally educate all of our kids in fields that produce real-world humans ready to contribute to society and serve their needs as individuals and members of society better.

    Brian Ross: Rather than Race to the Top, We Should Have Started Fixing Education There 2010

  • We also need more schools to convert to levels of education that spectrally educate all of our kids in fields that produce real-world humans ready to contribute to society and serve their needs as individuals and members of society better.

    Brian Ross: Rather than Race to the Top, We Should Have Started Fixing Education There 2010

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