Etymology

supercontinuum

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Today it means: light having both high spatial coherence and broad spectral bandwidth; i.e. laser light that is not monochromatic Full definition →

English continuum ← Latin super- ← Proto-Italic *super
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Englishcontinuum
  8. English todaysupercontinuum

From super- + continuum.

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