CYAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cyan mean? 

• CYAN (noun)
  The noun CYAN has 1 sense:

1. a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color

  Familiarity information: CYAN used as a noun is very rare.

• CYAN (adjective)
  The adjective CYAN has 1 sense:

1. of a bluish shade of green

  Familiarity information: CYAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("cyan" is a kind of...):

blue green; bluish green; teal (a blue-green color or pigment)

Derivation:

cyan (of a bluish shade of green)

• CYAN (adjective)

Comparative: cyaner   
Superlative: cyanest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a bluish shade of green

Synonyms:

blue-green; bluish green; cyan; teal

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

cyan (a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color)

 Context examples 

A color map that varies from cyan at one extreme to magenta at the other extreme.

(Cool Color Map, NCI Thesaurus)

Atmospheric methane absorbs red light but allows blue-green light to be scattered back into space, giving each planet a cyan hue.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)