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There are even specular highlights on app icons that shift as the phone moves in your hand.
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Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 10 June 2025
With a long tradition of luxury hospitality, the Gstaad Palace provides 90 sumptuous rooms and suites, housed in the incredible castle towers that combine modern classic design and coziness with specular views over the Swiss peaks.
—Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
Its backgrounds are fairly frenetic looking, a result of specular highlights that show hard edges and a polygonal shape.
—PCMAG, 27 Sep. 2024
Apple explains that tandem OLED also allows the display to change colors faster, show brighter specular highlights in photos and videos, and reveal more detail in shadows, all while delivering sub-millisecond responsiveness.
—Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
Brighter parts of the defocused background, called specular highlights, are mostly round wide-open and show just a slight cat's eye effect.
—PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024
By using all these data streams in combination, the researchers were able to pick out a few specific places on the moon’s surface that had produced the specular reflections.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 June 2020
This applies to all the specular technologies spawned in photography’s wake—right down to the MRIs and ultrasounds of our frantically medicalized era.
—Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
But a range of other rocks appear in the archaeological record, from the yellow ochre goethite to the often-dramatic specular hematite, sometimes called specularite.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2018
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Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 10 June 2025
With a long tradition of luxury hospitality, the Gstaad Palace provides 90 sumptuous rooms and suites, housed in the incredible castle towers that combine modern classic design and coziness with specular views over the Swiss peaks.
—Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
Its backgrounds are fairly frenetic looking, a result of specular highlights that show hard edges and a polygonal shape.
—PCMAG, 27 Sep. 2024
Apple explains that tandem OLED also allows the display to change colors faster, show brighter specular highlights in photos and videos, and reveal more detail in shadows, all while delivering sub-millisecond responsiveness.
—Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
Brighter parts of the defocused background, called specular highlights, are mostly round wide-open and show just a slight cat's eye effect.
—PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024
By using all these data streams in combination, the researchers were able to pick out a few specific places on the moon’s surface that had produced the specular reflections.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 June 2020
This applies to all the specular technologies spawned in photography’s wake—right down to the MRIs and ultrasounds of our frantically medicalized era.
—Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
But a range of other rocks appear in the archaeological record, from the yellow ochre goethite to the often-dramatic specular hematite, sometimes called specularite.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2018
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“Specular.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/specular. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.
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specular
adjective
spec·u·lar
ˈspek-yə-lər 
: conducted with the aid of a speculum
a specular examination
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