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mon⋅o⋅chrome

  [mon-uh-krohm]
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–noun
1. a painting or drawing in different shades of a single color.
2. the art or technique of producing such a painting or drawing.
3. the state or condition of being painted, decorated, etc., in shades of a single color.
–adjective
4. being or made in the shades of a single color: a blue monochrome seascape.
5. having the images reproduced in tones of gray: monochrome television.
Origin:
1655–65; < ML monochrōma. See mono-, -chrome

Related forms:
mon⋅o⋅chro⋅mic, mon⋅o⋅chro⋅mi⋅cal, adjective
mon⋅o⋅chro⋅mi⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
mon⋅o⋅chrom⋅ist, noun
mon⋅o⋅chro⋅my, noun
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mon·o·chrome   (mŏn'ə-krōm')   
n.  
    1. A picture, especially a painting, done in different shades of a single color.
    2. The art or technique of executing such a picture.
  2. The state of being in a single color.
  3. A black-and-white image, as in photography or on television.

[Medieval Latin monochrōma, from feminine of Greek monokhrōmos, of one color : mono-, mono- + khrōma, color.]
mon'o·chrome', mon'o·chro'mic (-krō'mĭk) adj.
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Monochrome

Mon"o*chrome\, n. [Gr. ? of one color; ? single + ? color: cf. F. monochrome.] A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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monochrome 
1662, "painting or drawing done in different tints of a single color," from Gk. monochromos "of a single color," from monos "single, alone" + khroma (gen. khromatos) "color, complexion, skin." Photographic sense is recorded from 1940.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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monochrome graphics
Literally "one colour". Usually used for a black and white (or sometimes green or orange) monitor as distinct from a color monitor. Normally, each pixel on the display will correspond to a single bit of display memory and will therefore be one of two intensities. A grey-scale display requires several bits per pixel but might still be called monochrome.
Compare: bitonal.
(1994-11-24)

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