flying colors
flying colours | complete success, they passed inspection with flying colors |
| change of color | an act that changes the light that something reflects |
chemical analysis
qualitative analysis | the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements |
quantitative analysis
quantitative chemical analysis | chemical analysis to determine the amounts of each element in the substance |
| chemical terrorism | terrorism using the chemical agents of chemical warfare, can undermine the personal security of citizens, a good agent for chemical terrorism should be colorless and odorless and inexpensive and readily available and not detectable until symptoms are experienced |
| chemical engineering | the activity of applying chemistry to the solution of practical problems |
chemical defense
chemical defence | procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using chemical agents |
chemical warfare
chemical operations | warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy |
analytical balance
chemical balance | a beam balance of great precision used in quantitative chemical analysis |
chemical bomb
gas bomb | a bomb laden with chemical agents that are released when the bomb explodes |
| chemical plant | an industrial plant where chemicals are produced |
| chemical reactor | an apparatus for holding substances that are undergoing a chemical reaction |
| chemical weapon | chemical substances that can be delivered using munitions and dispersal devices to cause death or severe harm to people and animals and plants |
colors
colours | a flag that shows its nationality |
| colors colours | a distinguishing emblem, his tie proclaimed his school colors |
color television
colour television
color television system
colour television system
color TV
colour TV | a television that transmits images in color |
color tube
colour tube
color television tube
colour television tube
color TV tube
colour TV tube | a television tube that displays images in full color |
color wash
colour wash | a wash of whitewash or other water-base paint tinted with a colored pigment |
field-sequential color television
field-sequential color TV
field-sequential color television system
field-sequential color TV system | an early form of color TV in which successive fields are scanned in three primary colors |
oil oil color
oil colour | oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist |
tempera
poster paint
poster color
poster colour | pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk |
| color colour | the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation |
semblance
gloss color colour | an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading, he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity, he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction, the situation soon took on a different color |
color of law
colour of law | a mere semblance of legal right, something done with the apparent authority of law but actually in contravention of law, the plaintiff claimed that under color of law the officer had deprived him of his civil rights |
color
colour
coloring
colouring | a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect, a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light |
primary color
primary colour | any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing |
primary color for pigments
primary colour for pigments | any of three pigments from which all colors can be obtained by mixing, the primary colors for pigments are red, blue, and yellow |
primary color for light
primary colour for light | any of three primary colors of light from which all colors can be obtained by additive mixing, the primary colors for light are red, blue, and green |
primary subtractive color for light
primary subtractive colour for light | any of the three colors that give the primary colors for light after subtraction from white light, the primary subtractive colors for light are magenta, cyan, and yellow |
chromatic color
chromatic colour
spectral color
spectral colour | a color that has hue |
achromatic color
achromatic colour | a color lacking hue, white or grey or black |
copper
copper color | a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper |
| color property | an attribute of color |
complementary color
complementary | either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments), yellow and blue are complementaries |
complexion
skin color
skin colour | the coloring of a person's face |
nonsolid color
nonsolid colour
dithered color
dithered colour | a color produced by a pattern of differently colored dots that together simulate the desired color |
| color colour coloration colouration | the timbre of a musical sound, the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music |
| chemical property | a property used to characterize materials in reactions that change their identity |
| color colour vividness | interest and variety and intensity, the Puritan Period was lacking in color, the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness |
| areola ring of color | small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite |
color vision
chromatic vision
trichromacy | the normal ability to see colors |
color bar
colour bar
color line
colour line
Jim Crow | barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites |
color constancy
colour constancy | the tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions |
| color colour | (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction, each flavor of quarks comes in three colors |
equilibrium law
law of chemical equilibrium | (chemistry) the principle that (at chemical equilibrium) in a reversible reaction the ratio of the rate of the forward reaction to the rate of the reverse reaction is a constant for that reaction |
chemistry
chemical science r | the science of matter, the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions |
| chemical engineering | the branch of engineering that is concerned with the design and construction and operation of the plants and machinery used in industrial chemical processes |
| color code | system using colors to designate classifications |
| colour supplement | (British) a magazine that is printed in color and circulated with a newspaper (especially on weekends) |
| Chemical Weapons Convention | a global treaty banning the production or acquisition or stockpiling or transfer or use of chemical weapons |