change of color | an act that changes the light that something reflects |
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 |
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 |
code of conduct code of behavior | a set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group |
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 |
code | a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy |
access access code | a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.) |
area code | a number usually of digits assigned to a telephone area as in the United States and Canada |
bar code Universal Product Code | code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser, printed on consumer product packages to identify the item for a computer that provides the price and registers inventory information |
color code | system using colors to designate classifications |
cipher cypher cryptograph secret code | a secret method of writing |
Morse Morse code international Morse code | a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals) |
ZIP code ZIP postcode postal code | a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail |
code computer code | (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII | (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies, a string of binary digits represents each character, used in most microcomputers |
binary code | code using a string of binary digits to represent characters |
error correction code ECC | (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors |
machine code machine language | a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation |
object code | the machine-language output of a compiler that is ready for execution on a particular computer |
operation code order code | the portion of a set of operation descriptions that specifies the operation to be performed, the set of operations in a computer |
source code | program instructions written as an ASCII text file, must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution |
Roman law Justinian code civil law jus civile | the legal code of ancient Rome, codified under Justinian, the basis for many modern systems of civil law |
logic bomb slag code | a set of instructions inserted into a program that are designed to execute (or `explode') if a particular condition is satisfied, when exploded it may delete or corrupt data, or print a spurious message, or have other harmful effects, a disgruntled employee planted a logic bomb |
colour supplement | (British) a magazine that is printed in color and circulated with a newspaper (especially on weekends) |
ethic ethical code | a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct |