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colour index
colour index n. a scale or listing of colours; spec. (a) Medicine the ratio of the quantity of haemoglobin to the number of red blood cells present in a blood sample (now rare); (b) Astronomy a number representative of the colour (and hence the temperature) of a star, equal to the difference in its magnitude (brightness) at two chosen wavelengths, typically blue and green-yellow, or ultraviolet and blue; (c) Geology a number expressing the percentage of dark-coloured minerals (typically ferromagnesian ones) in an igneous rock.
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1869 Brit. Jrnl. Homœopathy 27 225 In no case does the colour-index furnish an identity of four terms, nor does the colorometer give identity at all.
1908 Practitioner Aug. 323 Generally the fewer the red corpuscles, the higher is the colour index.
1921 Discovery Feb. 38/1 The difference between the photographic and the visual magnitude of a star is therefore due to the colour of the star, and is called the colour-index.
1927 S. J. Shand Eruptive Rocks vii. 131 If a rock contains 17 per cent. of heavy minerals, we shall say that its colour ratio is 17 per cent., or that its colour index is 17.
1928 Lancet 28 Apr. 849/1 The reticulocytosis occurring in association with a remission is quickly followed by a fall in colour-index.
1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 162/1 A high color index implies a high content of magnesium, iron and often calcium.
1998 Artist Mar. 37/1 The paints are listed by paint name..and the colour index name (abbreviated pigment colour and a number, for example PY 35).
2008 M. S. Longair Galaxy Formation (ed. 2) xvii. 519 The quasars no longer exhibit ultraviolet excesses in the (U−B) colour index.
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