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A deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision)
Answer for the clue "A deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) ", 12 letters:
dichromatism
Word definitions for dichromatism in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) [syn: dichromacy , dichromatopsia , dichromia , dichromasy ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dichromatism (or polychromatism) is a phenomenon where a material or solution's hue is dependent on both the concentration of the absorbing substance and the depth or thickness of the medium traversed. In most substances which are not dichromatic, only ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dichromatism \Di*chro"ma*tism\, n. The state of being dichromatic.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The condition of being dichromatic 2 (context pathology English) A form of colourblindness in which only two of the three primary colours can be distinguished
Usage examples of dichromatism.
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As if the trouble we're having with the dichromatism bit wasn't enough, these bleeders in Yatakang have to - ah, never mind.
Doubtless having given up everything at home - their jobs, their apt, their friends - for the sake of a legal conception in Puerto Rico, they had been cornered by the J-but-O State's unexpected ratification of the dichromatism law and were now driven back to considering adoption, which they could have arranged without leaving the mainland.