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col·our    Audio Help   (kŭl'ər)  Pronunciation Key  n.   & v. Chiefly British Variant of color.

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adjective
1.	having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations" [syn: color] [ant: black-and-white]
noun
1.	any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim" [syn: coloring material]
2.	a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) [syn: color]
3.	(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors" [syn: color]
4.	interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness" [syn: color]
5.	the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music" [syn: color]
6.	a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light" [syn: color] [ant: achromaticity]
7.	an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color" [syn: semblance]
8.	the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation [syn: color]
verb
1.	modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures" [syn: color]
2.	decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones" [syn: color]
3.	give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; "color a lie" [syn: color]
4.	affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life" [syn: tinge]
5.	add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" [syn: color] [ant: discolor]
6.	change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored" [syn: discolor]

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colour1 [ˈkalə] noun
colour2 [ˈkalə] noun
colour3 [ˈkalə] noun
colour4 [ˈkalə] noun
colour [ˈkalə] adjective
colour [ˈkalə] verb
See also: colour in, colour scheme, colour-blind, coloured, colourful, colouring, colourless, colours, off-colour, show oneself in one's true colours, with flying colours

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colour graphics
(US "color") Colours are usually represented as RGB triples in a digital image because this corresponds most closely to the electronic signals needed to drive a CRT. Several equivalent systems ("colour models") exist, e.g. HSB. A colour image may be stored as three separate images, one for each of red, green, and blue, or each pixel may encode the colour using separate bit-fields for each colour component, or each pixel may store a logical colour number which is looked up in a hardware colour palette to find the colour to display.
Printers may use the CMYK or Pantone representations of colours as well as RGB.??
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colour

Col"or\, n. [Written also colour.] [OF. color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See Helmet.]

1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.

Note: The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them.

2. Any hue distinguished from white or black.

3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.

Give color to my pale cheek. --Shak.

4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.

5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.

They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. --Acts xxvii. 30.

That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death. --Shak.

6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species.

Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. --Shak.

7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).

In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. --Farrow.

8. (Law) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. --Blackstone.

Note: Color is express when it is averred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading.

Body color. See under Body.

Color blindness, total or partial inability to distinguish or recognize colors. See Daltonism.

Complementary color, one of two colors so related to each other that when blended together they produce white light; -- so called because each color makes up to the other what it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors, when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption.

Of color (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race; -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed.

Primary colors, those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, -- red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called fundamental colors.

Subjective or Accidental color, a false or spurious color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and with a circumference regularly subdivided, is made to revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth of the wheel appear to the eye of different shades of color varying with the rapidity of rotation. See Accidental colors, under Accidental.

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