All 10 Uses of
spectrum
in
Dune
- A slightly lower pitch would have been better, but it could still fall within this man's spectrum.†
Book 1 *
- The thing was a spectrum of possibilities from the most remote past to the most remote future—from the most probable to the most improbable.†
Book 1
- Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end.†
Book 2
- They might have taken Arrakis when they realized the error of specializing on the melange awareness-spectrum narcotic for their navigators.†
Book 3
- Water is poisonous to shai-hulud as the Fremen had long known from drowning the rare "stunted worm" of the Minor Erg to produce the awareness-spectrum narcotic they call Water of Life.†
Book A1 -
- Prenatal exposure to an awareness-spectrum narcotic is the reason generally given for Bene Gesserit references to her as "Accursed One."†
Book A4 -
- SNOOPER, POISON: radiation analyzer within the olfactory spectrum and keyed to detect poisonous substances.†
Book Term
- TRUTHTRANCE: semihypnotic trance induced by one of several "awareness spectrum" narcotics in which the petit betrayals of deliberate falsehood are apparent to the truthtrance observer.†
Book Term
- Note: "awareness spectrum" narcotics are frequently fatal except to desensitized individuals capable of transforming the poison-configuration within their own bodies.†
Book Term
- An "awareness spectrum" narcotic.†
Book Term
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