These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'specter.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 Armstrong compared today's specter of white supremacy to the mythical Hydra, whose heads, when cut off, grow two more in one’s place. Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2023 Any hotel with such a history is bound to have a few residual spirits hanging around, and guests have reported seeing specters and hearing children running down the halls here late at night. Karim Doumar, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 1600, 'frightening ghost, apparition of the dead as they were in life,' from French spectre 'an image, figure, ghost' (16c.), from Latin spectrum 'appearance, vision, apparition' (see spectrum). 2023 The specter of climate change can feel overwhelming. 2023 But, as the Republican crusade against trans rights has shown, actual facts aren’t as important as the political points gained by conjuring the specter of some terrifying trans invasion. 2023 The move left many researchers wondering whether the specter of accidental germline transmission - which haunted early gene therapy trials - had now risen over the field of gene editing. 2023 For Ukraine, the strike helped open the floodgates of Western weapons and deflated the specter of an invincible Russian army. The word spectrum was first used scientifically in optics to describe the rainbow of colors in visible light after passing through a prism. C17: from Latin spectrum,from specereto look at. A spectrum ( PL: spectra or spectrums) 1 is a condition that is not limited to a specific set of values but can vary, without gaps, across a continuum. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. a mental image of something unpleasant or menacing: the spectre of redundancy. Meltdown is a vulnerability allowing a process to read. 2023 Here, players become specters - ghosts of themselves and must manually race back to touch another player to be tagged in without using a life. In the most basic definition, Spectre is a vulnerability allowing for arbitrary locations in the allocated memory of a program to be read.
Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 1 Sep. Recent Examples on the Web This bleak, practically apocalyptic sentiment would have been close to heresy back when the specter of Ronald Reagan hovered above any gathering of two or more Republicans.
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