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color wheel

color wheel is the alternative spelling of colour wheel.

Meaning of colour wheel

Noun

colour wheel (plural colour wheels)

  1. (UK) A planar circular chart in which related colours are adjacent, and complementary colors are opposite.
  2. A device that emits varying colours of light by the use of a wheel, commonly used to illuminate Christmas trees.
    • With fears that draping normal Christmas fairy lights through the tree's aluminium branches would cause a short circuit, the trees were lit from below by a rotating colour wheel divided into wedge-shaped segments of variously coloured plastic.2013, Martin Pullen, The Completely Useless Guide to Christmas

Forms of color wheel

pluralcolor wheels

Questions about color wheel

What is color wheel the alternative spelling of?
Color wheel is the alternative spelling of colour wheel.

Words near color wheel in the dictionary

  1. color TVs
  2. color up
  3. color war
  4. color wars
  5. color wash
  6. color wheel
  7. color wheels
  8. color'd
  9. color-blind
  10. color-blindly
  11. color-blindness

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