| 单词 | colour wheel |
| 释义 | > as lemmascolour wheel colour wheel n. (a) a wheel or disc for applying colour in a piece of apparatus; (b) a device consisting of a small circular table on which can be placed a disc having two or more colours, so that the combination of the colours may be observed when the table is made to rotate; (c) a disc that has segments of different colours arranged around the circumference, used in art, interior design, etc.; = colour circle n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > science of colour > [noun] > instruments combining colours colour circle1854 colour top1855 chromatrope1860 colour box1870 wheel of colour1877 colour organ1881 colour wheel1909 1848 U.S. Patent 5688 3/1 Partially rotate the wheel..to the extent required to bring the color wheels to act entirely on a fresh surface of warps. 1900 U.S. Patent 648,347 2/2 A pair of printing-rollers..the latter of which is..kept ‘inked’ by a color-wheel. 1909 C. E. Seashore Elem. Exper. Psychol. ii. 15 Revolve a black and white disk upon the color-wheel and adjust the proportions of black and white until the resulting gray matches. 1935 Farming in S. Afr. June 265/2 The colour wheel..is used as a guide to grouping colours in the home. 1960 U.S. Patent 2,927,824 1 The vehicle manufacturer may paint the wheel structure any color..and thereby save cost in paint and scheduling certain color wheels to be mounted. 1974 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Apr. 94/2 A device for studying color fusion is the color wheel. Two or more colors are place on the wheel, which is then rotated rapidly. 2005 Period Living & Trad. Homes Apr. 67/1 Most professional designers swear by the colour wheel—a circle containing all the colours of the spectrum. < as lemmas |
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