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CMYK

CMYK is the initialism of cyan.

Meaning of cyan

Noun

cyan (countable and uncountable, plural cyans)

  1. An additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 and ~520 nm.
    • CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. This four component color system is standard for most types of color printing, since black is an ink color in printing but is simply the absence of color in video.2009, Harry Henderson, Computer Science and Technology, Revised edition, →ISBN, page 93

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Questions about CMYK

What is CMYK the initialism of?
CMYK is the initialism of cyan.

Words near CMYK in the dictionary

  1. CMV
  2. CMVs
  3. CMVSS
  4. CMY
  5. CMYB
  6. CMYK
  7. CMZ
  8. CMZS
  9. CN
  10. CN gas
  11. CN Tower

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CMYK (page history and authors); cyan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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