SPECTRAL COLOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spectral colour mean? 

• SPECTRAL COLOUR (noun)
  The noun SPECTRAL COLOUR has 1 sense:

1. a color that has hue

  Familiarity information: SPECTRAL COLOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPECTRAL COLOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A color that has hue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour

Hypernyms ("spectral colour" is a kind of...):

color; coloring; colour; colouring (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)

Meronyms (substance of "spectral colour"):

chroma; intensity; saturation; vividness (chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spectral colour"):

red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)

orange; orangeness (orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow)

salmon (a pale pinkish orange color)

yellow; yellowness (yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons)

blond; blonde (a light grayish yellow to near white)

green; greenness; viridity (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)

blue; blueness (blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime)

purple; purpleness (a purple color or pigment)

pink (a light shade of red)

brown; brownness (an orange of low brightness and saturation)

olive (a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation)

pastel (any of various pale or light colors)

complementary; complementary color (either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments))