(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:46:17

Fraun"ho*fer lines` (?). Physics.

The lines of the spectrum; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist.

 

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