correction rectification | the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake, setting right |
change of color | an act that changes the light that something reflects |
correction | treatment of a specific defect, the correction of his vision with eye glasses |
discipline correction | the act of punishing, the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received |
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 |
house of correction | (formerly) a jail or other place of detention for persons convicted of minor offences |
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 |
correction | a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases, market runups are invariably followed by a correction |
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 |
color code | system using colors to designate classifications |
error correction code ECC | (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors |
correction | something substituted for an error |
colour supplement | (British) a magazine that is printed in color and circulated with a newspaper (especially on weekends) |
correction chastening chastisement | a rebuke for making a mistake |
color chart | a chart displaying colors |
color circle color wheel | a chart in which complementary colors (or their names) are arranged on opposite sides of a circle |
coloring colouring food coloring food colouring food color food colour | a digestible substance used to give color to food, food color made from vegetable dyes |
color scheme colour scheme | a planned combination of colors, the color scheme for this room was determined by an interior decorator |
color colour people of color people of colour | a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) |
color-blind person | a person unable to distinguish differences in hue |
person of color person of colour | (formal) any non-European non-white person |
color bearer standard-bearer | the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle |
color guard | a ceremonial escort for the (regimental) colors |
color sergeant | a sergeant in a color guard who carries one of the colors |
strong interaction strong force color force | (physics) the interaction that binds protons and neutrons together in the nuclei of atoms, mediated by gluons |