absorption spectrum

1. 1.

   the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation that has passed through a medium that absorbed radiation of certain wavelengths

   Broaderspectrum

Questions about absorption spectrum

What does absorption spectrum mean?

absorption spectrum means "the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation that has passed through a medium that absorbed radiation of certain wavelengths".

Is absorption spectrum a common word?

absorption spectrum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.