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 |
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 |
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 |
imagination imaginativeness vision | the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses, popular imagination created a world of demons, imagination reveals what the world could be |
sight vision visual sense visual modality | the ability to see, the visual faculty |
achromatic vision | vision using the rods |
binocular vision | vision involving the use of both eyes |
central vision | vision using the fovea and parafovea, the middle part of the visual field |
color vision chromatic vision trichromacy | the normal ability to see colors |
distance vision | vision for objects that afeet or more from the viewer |
foveal vision | vision with the fovea |
monocular vision | vision with only one eye |
near vision | vision for objects feet or closer to the viewer |
night vision night-sight scotopic vision twilight vision | the ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight) |
daylight vision photopic vision | normal vision in daylight, vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived |
peripheral vision | vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina |
stereoscopic vision stereoscopy | three-dimensional vision produced by the fusion of two slightly different views of a scene on each retina |
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 |
vision visual sensation | the perceptual experience of seeing, the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision, he had a visual sensation of intense light |
vision | a vivid mental image, he had a vision of his own death |
color colour | (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction, each flavor of quarks comes in three colors |
visual field field of vision field of regard | all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment |
colour supplement | (British) a magazine that is printed in color and circulated with a newspaper (especially on weekends) |
vision | a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance, he had a vision of the Virgin Mary |
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) |
line of sight line of vision | an imaginary straight line along which an observer looks |
person of color person of colour | (formal) any non-European non-white person |
color blindness colour blindness color vision deficiency colour vision deficiency | genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue |
diplopia double vision | visual impairment in which an object is seen as two objects, diplopia often disappears when one eye is covered |
red-green dichromacy red-green color blindness red-green colour blindness | confusion of red and green |
monochromacy monochromatism monochromatic vision monochromia monochromasy | complete color blindness, colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness |