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Stretch vs Spectrum - What's the difference?

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Stretch is a related term of spectrum.


As nouns the difference between stretch and spectrum

is that stretch is an act of stretching while spectrum is specter, apparition.

As a verb stretch

is (label) to lengthen by pulling.

stretch

English

Verb

  • (label) To lengthen by pulling.
  • (label) To lengthen when pulled.
  • * Boyle
    • The inner membrane because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.
  • (label) To pull tight.
  • To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
  • To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
  • (label) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
  • To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
  • (label) To extend to a limit point
  • (label) To increase.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Norwich 3-3 Blackburn , passage=Yakubu took advantage of John Ruddy's error to put the visitors back in front, with Chris Samba's header stretching their advantage.}}
  • To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
    • a man apt to stretch in his report of facts
  • (label) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
    • The ship stretched to the eastward.

    Noun

    (es)
  • An act of stretching.
    • I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang.
    To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch.
  • The ability to lengthen when pulled.
    • That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.
  • A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
    • It's a bit of a stretch to call Boris Karloff a comedian.
  • A segment of a journey or route.
    • It was an easy trip except for the last stretch , which took forever.
  • (label) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
  • (label) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
  • A length of time.
    • He did a 7-year stretch in jail.
  • *
    • After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever
  • (label) A term of address for a tall person
  • * 2007 , Michael Farrell, Running with Buffalo
  • *:“Hey, Stretch ,” he shouted at a tall, spectacled co-worker, “turn the fucking station, will you? You know I can't stand Rush, and it's all they play on this one. If I hear those assholes whine 'Tom Sawyer' one more time, I may go on a fucking killing spree.

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, at full stretch , by a long stretch , cat stretch , outstretch , overstretch , seventh inning stretch , stretchable , stretch limo , stretch of the imagination , stretch mark , stretch out , stretch pants , stretcher , stretchy}}

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs

    spectrum

    English

    (wikipedia spectrum)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Specter, apparition.
  • A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=As Mr. Obama prepared to take the oath, his approval rating touched a remarkable 70 percent in some polling — a reflection of good will across the political spectrum .}}
  • Specifically, a range of colours representing light (electromagnetic radiation) of contiguous frequencies; hence electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, ultraviolet spectrum, etc.
  • * 2010 October 30, Jim Giles, Jammed!'', in '' ,
    • Current 3G technologies can send roughly 1 bit of data - a one or a zero - per second over each 1 Hz of spectrum that the operator owns.
  • (chemistry) The pattern of absorption or emission of radiation produced by a substance when subjected to energy (radiation, heat, electricity, etc.).
  • (mathematics, linear algebra) The set of eigenvalues of a matrix.
  • (mathematics, functional analysis) Of a bounded linear operator A'', the set of scalar values ? such that the operator ''A—?I'', where ''I denotes the identity operator, does not have a bounded inverse; intended as a generalisation of the linear algebra sense.

    • Derived terms

    * light spectrum * spectro- * spectrum disorder

    Related terms

    * spectral

    Anagrams

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