Color
Color or colour (see spelling differences) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue, and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light power versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects, materials, light sources, etc., based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra. By defining a color space, colors can be identified numerically by their coordinates.
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Some articles on color:
... It is the color of the interior of the central cylindrical tubular projection of the jonquil flower ... The color takes its name from a species of plant, Narcissus jonquilla, which has clusters of small fragrant yellow flowers, and is native to the Mediterranean ... The first known recorded use of jonquil as a color name in English was in 1789 ...
... These terms, and others related to light and color are internationally agreed upon and published in the CIE Lighting Vocabulary ... Hue the color's direction from white, for example in a color wheel or chromaticity diagram ... Shade a color made darker by adding black ...
More definitions of "color":
- (verb): Affect as in thought or feeling.
Example: "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"
Synonyms: tinge, colour, distort
- (adj): Having or capable of producing colors.
Example: "Color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
Synonyms: colour
- (noun): The timbre of a musical sound.
Example: "The recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
Synonyms: colour, coloration, colouration
- (noun): A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks).
Synonyms: colour, people of color, people of colour
- (verb): Add color to.
Synonyms: colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
- (noun): The appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation.
Synonyms: colour
- (noun): Interest and variety and intensity.
Example: "The Puritan Period was lacking in color"
Synonyms: colour, vividness
- (noun): (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors.
Synonyms: colour
- (verb): Decorate with colors.
Example: "Color the walls with paint in warm tones"
Synonyms: colour, emblazon
- (noun): Any material used for its color.
Example: "She used a different color for the trim"
Synonyms: coloring material, colouring material, colour
- (verb): Modify or bias.
Example: "His political ideas color his lectures"
Synonyms: colour
Famous quotes containing the word color:
“It is never the thing but the version of the thing:
The fragrance of the woman not her self,
Her self in her manner not the solid block,
The day in its color not perpending time,
Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord,
The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Actors work and slave—and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.”
—Helen Hayes (1900–1993)
“‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
“Their color is a diabolic die.”
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.”
—Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784)