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spectre

 
Noun spectre has 2 senses
  1. apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, specter, spectre - a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
    --1 is a kind of spirit, disembodied spirit
    --1 has particulars: Flying Dutchman
  2. ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
    --2 is a kind of apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, shadow
spectra spectral spectral color spectral colour spectral leakage spectrascope spectrascopes spectrascopy spectre spectre at the wake spectrespec spectrogram spectrograph spectrographic spectrographic analysis spectrographically spectrometer

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