Contrast may refer to:
- Contrast (vision), the difference in color and light between parts of an image
- Contrast (form), vertical, horizontal, concave, convex, geometric, organic, soft, hard, coarse, smooth etc.
- Contrast (linguistics), expressing distinctions between words
- Contrast (statistics), a combination of averages whose coefficients add up to zero, or the difference between two means
- Contrast (literary), describing the difference(s) between two or more entities
- Negative (positive) contrast effect, a phenomenon studied in psychology (behavior analysis)
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Famous quotes containing the word contrast:
“Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all of the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music heard out of a work-house.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature—for instance in a biological survey of evolution—we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.”
—Owen Barfield (b. 1898)