| 单词 | prismatic colour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprismatic colour prismatic colour n. each of the colours into which white light is split by a prism (conventionally regarded as seven in number); colour such as that produced by a prism from white light; frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > [noun] > spectrum > seven colours of prism1669 prismatic colour1728 1728Prismatick Colours [see sense A. 2a]. 1849 D. P. Thomson Introd. Meteorol. 227 In coronæ the blue prismatic colour is nearer the centre than the red. 1896 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Dec. 1627/1 The lines..come and go with shimmering prismatic colours. 1993 E. A. Proulx Shipping News v. 40 An arc showed in the fog, beyond it a second arc of faint prismatic color. 2004 Sunday Times (Nexis) 14 Mar. (Features section) 8 As for those startling prismatic colours, Hunt had a chemist's passion for finding the raciest new pigments. < as lemmas |
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