TRICHROMATIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trichromatic mean? 

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

1. having or involving three colors

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRICHROMATIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or involving three colors

Synonyms:

trichromatic; trichrome; tricolor

Context example:

a tricolor process in photography

Similar:

colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)

 Context examples 

Moreover, the face-color memory effects uncovered in the study appear to be encoded by the L and M cones, the photoreceptors that make trichromatic color vision possible.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

The findings also suggest that social communication cues from faces factored into evolutionary selective pressures that gave rise to trichromatic color vision in our ancestors 23 million years ago.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)