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The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength
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chromaticity
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength [syn: hue ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
chromaticity \chromaticity\ n. the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength. Syn: hue.
Wikipedia
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Chromaticity is an objective specification of the quality of a color regardless of its luminance . Chromaticity consists of two independent parameters , often specified as hue (h) and colorfulness (s), where the latter is alternatively called saturation, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An objective specification of the quality of a colour, regardless of its luminance.
Usage examples of chromaticity.
Murakami: In the case of colors, there are features like density, chromaticity, luminosity, and also the color itself.
And so he worked on, trying to incorporate into the calculation skylight radiance intensities, Chandrasekhar's radiative transfer equation, chromaticity scales, aerosol chemical compositions, Le-gendre polynomials to evaluate the angular scattering intensities, Riccati-Bessel functions to evaluate the scattering cross sections, and so on-occupying the better part of the drive to Arena Glacier, concentrating hard and steadfastly ignoring the world around him and the situation in which he now found himself.