To be considered as open source software by the software development industry, certain criteria must be met: The program must be freely distributed (It can be part of a package that is sold though, such as Red Hat has done with Linux in the example below).
The term broad-spectrum antibiotic refers to an antibiotic that acts against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria. A broad-spectrum antibiotic acts against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, in contrast to a narrow-spectrum antibiotic, which is effective against specific families of bacteria. An example of a commonly used broad-spectrum antibiotic is ampicillin.
solar spectrum. The distribution of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sun. Although the solar spectrum essentially covers the entire electromagnetic spectrum, most of the energy is concentrated in an interval whose wavelengths span from approximately 300 nm to 3000 nm.