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color compass

color compass noun: the colour wheel.

Noun

color compass (uncountable)

  1. (dated) The colour wheel.
    • These hues are about equidistant on the color compass.1920, Harry Dexter Kitson, Manual for the Study of the Psychology of Advertising and Selling, page 40

Questions about color compass

What does color compass mean?
Color compass means the colour wheel.
What part of speech is color compass?
Color compass is a noun.

Words near color compass in the dictionary

  1. color coding
  2. color commentaries
  3. color commentary
  4. color commentator
  5. color commentators
  6. color compass
  7. color constancy
  8. color coordinate
  9. color coordinate system
  10. color coordinate systems
  11. color coordinated

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