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chroma

[ kroh-muh ]

noun

  1. the purity of a color, or its freedom from white or gray.
  2. intensity of distinctive hue; saturation of a color.


chroma

/ ˈ°ì°ùəʊ³¾É™ /

noun

  1. the attribute of a colour that enables an observer to judge how much chromatic colour it contains irrespective of achromatic colour present See also saturation
  2. (in colour television) the colour component in a composite coded signal
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of chroma1

First recorded in 1885–90, chroma is from the Greek word ³¦³ó°ùô³¾²¹ color
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of chroma1

C19: from Greek °ì³ó°ùų¾²¹ colour
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But if there’s a little bit more ambient lighting, colors look washed out, or low in chroma.

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The Watts Towers aim to split the sky into chroma, spires tiled with rubble nothing less than aspiration.

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Acid-green projected light — known as chroma green, used by film studios for “green screen†effects — bathes the big gallery off the rotunda.

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First there was Robert Musil the mechanical engineer, who invented a chroma meter, a device for evaluating color.

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In their variety of chroma and brushwork, they vigorously explore different tensions between the flanking planes of color and the tangles of line between them.

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