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colour wheels

colour wheels is the plural 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

Questions about colour wheels

What is colour wheels the plural of?
Colour wheels is the plural of colour wheel.

Words near colour wheels in the dictionary

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

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