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colour wheel

colour wheel noun: a planar circular chart in which related colours are adjacent, and complementary colors are opposite.

colour wheel: a planar circular chart in which related colours are adjacent, and complementary colors are opposite
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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
    • The twins led him across the room to a silver aluminum Christmas tree in the far corner. A device on the floor cast light on the tree from a bulb behind a slowly turning color wheel.2013, Robert Jeschonek, Christmas at Glosser's, page 13

colour wheel meaning in Tamil

colour wheel in Tamil

வண்ணச் சக்கரம்

Forms of colour wheel

pluralcolour wheels
alternative UScolor wheel

Questions about colour wheel

What does colour wheel mean?
Colour wheel means a planar circular chart in which related colours are adjacent, and complementary colors are opposite.
What is colour wheel in Tamil?
Colour wheel in Tamil is வண்ணச் சக்கரம். See Colour wheel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is colour wheel?
Colour wheel is a noun.
What is the plural of colour wheel?
The plural of colour wheel is colour wheels.

Words near colour wheel in the dictionary

  1. colour triangles
  2. colour TV
  3. colour TVs
  4. colour up
  5. colour wash
  6. colour wheel
  7. colour wheels
  8. colour'd
  9. colour-blind
  10. colour-blindness
  11. colour-code

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colour wheel (page history and authors); colour wheel (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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