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primary colour
primary colour any of a group of colours from which all other colours can be obtained by mixing. The primary colours for pigments are red, blue, and yellow. The primary additive colours for light are red, green, and blue; the primary subtractive colours (which give the primary additive colours when... Read more |
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colours
colours, the name by which the national flag flown by a ship at sea is known. ‘What colours does it fly?’ means what is its nationality? In British naval ships the colours are the jack flown on the jackstaff in the bows and the white ensign flown at the gaff when at sea or from an... Read more |
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colour index
colour index The difference between the apparent magnitudes of a star at two different wavelengths, as measured through filters of different colours, e.g. B (blue) and V (yellow-green). B — V and U — B are typical colour indices. In Johnson photometry and Kron–Cousins RI... Read more |
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Eosin
eosin One of a series of acidic dyes, used in optical microscopy, that colours cytoplasm pink and cellulose red. It is frequently used as a counterstain with haematoxylin for colouring tissue smears and sections of animal tissue.... Read more |
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The Women
THE WOMEN USA, 1939 Director:George Cukor Production:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; black and white and colour; running time: 132 minutes. Producer:Hunt Stromberg; screenplay:Anita Loos, Jane Murfin, from the original play by Clare Booth Luce; ... Read more |
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colour blindness
colour blindness Some 8% of men exhibit a hereditary deficiency of colour perception, but so imprecise is our common coinage of words about colour that it was not until the eighteenth century that the existence of colour blindness was generally known — and only rather recently was it... Read more |
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Red
red a colour at the end of the spectrum next to orange and opposite violet, as the colour of blood, fire, or rubies. As a liturgical colour, red is used for Passion Sunday and Pentecost, and for the feasts of martyrs; figuratively it is associated with the emotions of anger and embarrassment, and... Read more |
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