COLOR SPECTRUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does color spectrum mean? 

• COLOR SPECTRUM (noun)
  The noun COLOR SPECTRUM has 1 sense:

1. the distribution of colors produced when light is dispersed by a prism

  Familiarity information: COLOR SPECTRUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLOR SPECTRUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The distribution of colors produced when light is dispersed by a prism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

color spectrum; visible spectrum

Hypernyms ("color spectrum" is a kind of...):

spectrum (an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave)

Holonyms ("color spectrum" is a part of...):

electromagnetic spectrum (the entire frequency range of electromagnetic waves)