The meaning of SPECTER is a visible disembodied spirit : ghost. How to use specter in a sentence.
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Examples from the Corpus spectre•Anotherspectreof his too-vividmemoryrose up totempthim.•Lonelinessfloodedher like the bone-chillingspectreof thedamned.•Once firmlyembarkedon the slow-growth road, theUnitedStates can not avoid theominousspectreof social and economicdecay.•And thespectreof mo...
Definition of spectre noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definitions from The Century Dictionary. nounSeespecter. from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. nounSeespecter. fromWiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. nounAlternative spelling ofspecter. ...
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Using the model created by Alistair Fowler in Kinds of Literature , Chapter One clarifies the distinction between literary genre and mode, and applies the latter definition to the Gothic. It also outlines the Gothic's original philosophy: its attack on rationalism, its manipulation of emotion, ...
a general approach to online and offline knee detection that is applicable to a wide range of systems. We define a knee formally for continuous functions using the mathematical concept of curvature and compare our definition against alternatives. We then evaluate Kneedle’s accuracy against existing...