absorption line

/AH0 B Z AO1 R P SH AH0 N L AY0 N/
noun
  1. 1

    (physics, astronomy) A spectral line that corresponds to the absorption of electromagnetic radiation at a specific wavelength; the pattern of such lines is characteristic of specific atoms or molecules in the path of the radiation.

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