chromatic colour

chromatic colour

n (General Physics) physics a formal term for colour²

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chromatic colour - a color that has hue chromatic color, spectral color, spectral colourcolor, coloring, colouring, colour - 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"red, redness - red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of bloodorangeness, orange - orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellowsalmon - a pale pinkish orange coloryellow, yellowness - yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemonsblond, blonde - a light grayish yellow to near whitegreen, viridity, greenness - green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grassblue, blueness - blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"purple, purpleness - a purple color or pigmentpink - a light shade of redbrown, brownness - an orange of low brightness and saturationolive - a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturationpastel - any of various pale or light colorschroma, vividness, intensity, saturation - chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in huecomplementary, complementary color - 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"