The word 'spectral' is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to something ghostly or supernatural. For example, "The spectral figure of a man seemed to hover in the corner of the room."
Blackwood's stories assert a deeper reality which, like the spectral skater, is always just "a little farther on, a little higher" than humans can grasp.
Osborne was the most cheerful, though even when he is caked in slap he still looks disturbingly spectral.
At the court of King Arthur, the winter festivities are disrupted by the arrival of a spectral green knight.
A priory once stood on the site of Spinney Abbey Farm and, on still nights, spectral monks have been seen and heard chanting across the fen, and strange lights bob towards Spinney Bank.
Hunched over his guitar, Johnson sang into a corner of the room, unleashing his spectral voice.
And, although the prose is occasionally hoarily overdone, the spectral chill in the night air remains tangible.
This last urinal, now clogged with mud and leaves, stands in its own way as a spectral monument to an older, earthier Paris, a long way from the sleek 21st century of the city.
"We will take hundreds of thousands of photographs and spectral images of Pluto and its moons as New Horizons sweeps past," said Stern.
The problem of spectral spread is dealt with by the arrangement of the rods in a pixel, in order to make their individual outputs combine, in a process known as far-field diffractive coupling, to form intense, vivid colours.Dr Olson claims the technology is compatible with existing manufacturing techniques and materials, making its industrialisation easy.
The spacecraft's instrument is not particularly precise, and although a model of the Martian atmosphere containing methane gives a better match to the spectra it sees than a methane-free model does, the match is not that great, and does not explain all the spectral anomalies in the data.
Like spectral armies fighting and refighting the battles of yore, the combatants of the 1990s are once more in the headlines, "banging on about Europe", something Mr Cameron, who witnessed the psycho-dramas as an adviser, once warned the party never to do again.All of which should, in theory, be a boon for Ed Miliband, the Labour leader.
