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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Fraunhofer lines

· Fraun·ho·fer lines · IPA
01 prop. n. pl. The lines of the spectrum; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and i…
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    The lines of the spectrum; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist.(Physics.)