supercontinuum

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *-er

Proto-Indo-European *upér

Proto-Italic *super

Latin super

Latin super-lbor.

English super-

English continuum

English supercontinuum

From super- + continuum.

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Noun

supercontinuum (plural supercontinua)

1. (physics) light having both high spatial coherence and broad spectral bandwidth; i.e. laser light that is not monochromatic