spectral line
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spectral line
n.
An isolated bright or dark line in a spectrum produced by emission or absorption of light of a single wavelength.
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spec′tral line′
n.
a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
[1865–70]
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