Both Uses of
spectrum
in
Childhood's End
- It would climb the spectrum and hover at the edge of yellow, and the cycle would reverse itself, the, star would expand and cool, becoming once more a ragged, flame-red cloud….†
Chpt 18
- Occasionally he caught complex rhythmical patterns racing up and down through the audible spectrum, to vanish at the upper or lower edge of hearing.†
Chpt 22 *
Definition:
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(spectrum) a range of things between two boundaries -- such as light waves of a given colors, or opinions about whether an idea is good or not