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colourmap

colourmap is the alternative form of colormap.

Meaning of colormap

Noun

colormap (plural colormaps)

  1. A lookup table specifying the colors to be used in rendering a palettized image.

Forms of colourmap

pluralcolourmaps

Origin of colourmap

From colour + map.

Questions about colourmap

What is colourmap the alternative form of?
Colourmap is the alternative form of colormap.

Words near colourmap in the dictionary

  1. colourlessly
  2. colourlessness
  3. colourmaker
  4. colourmakers
  5. colourman
  6. colourmap
  7. colourmaps
  8. colourmen
  9. colourology
  10. colourous
  11. colourphobia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: colourmap (page history and authors); colormap (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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