"Spectral line" means one line from the measured spectrum, regardless how that was created. Its width, so wavelength/frequency/energy range it covers corresponds to one unit of resolution of the measuring equipment you are using. So the term is more related to the way how the spectrum is observed.
"resonance line" means a part of spectra formed by some kind of resonance (or apossible energy state transition, when looking at the thig via Faynmon's duality laws; the possible electron energy transitions when capturing/releasing photons manifest itself as an optical resonance, when described using wave theory equations). So the term is used more in a context of how these photons are physically generated (or absorbed, e.g. in the case of selfabsorbtion inside HPS).
So the Sodium "D1" and "D2" lines are most often a single spectral line because most spectrum analyzers can not distinguish them, but two resonance lines, as each is related to a different energy transitions, even when very close in their values (so they both yield practically the same light).
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