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daltonic

daltonic adjective: suffering from Daltonism; colour blind, especially red-green colour blind.

Adjective (1)

daltonic (not comparable)

  1. Suffering from Daltonism; colour blind, especially red-green colour blind.
    • Words fail to present the difference between blue and green to the blind or to the daltonic, and, as everyone knows, all the attempts to "translate" music into words invariably awkward, crude, and inadequate.1981, Wendy Steiner, The Sign in Music and Literature, page 133
    • On the other hand, a women must have problems in both X chromosomes to be daltonic.2004, Julio A. Lillo, Humberto Moreira, Color Blindness, article in Charles Spielberger (editor), Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology, Three-Volume Set, Volume 1, page 415

Adjective (2) capitalized: Daltonic

Daltonic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the chemist John Dalton, Daltonian.
    • All our ideas are so interwoven with the Daltonic theory that we cannot transform ourselves into the times when it did not exist.1866, John Henry Pepper, The Playbook of Metals: A New Edition, page 150
    • It seems to me a cardinal point with many to consider the elements as blank units which may be played with numerically; they coldly and grudgingly accept the Daltonic proportions, and seem to consider it immaterial whether an element be xCl, or x₂Cl₂, or x₃Cl₃, excepting as far as volume or...1875 October 8, S. E. Phillips, The Atomic Weight of the Cerium Metals, William Crooke (editor), The Chemical News, Volume 31: 1875, page 176
  2. Colour blind, especially red-green colour blind.
    • Using three tests, bridge', 'differences and 'mosaic', can be as rapid as 1 minute per test but a child slightly Daltonic on PIC may give positive results on only two of the three; which two, cannot be predicted.1982, R. Fletcher, “Childrens'^([sic]) Tests - Further Applications”, in G. Verriest, editor, Colour Vision Deficiencies, volume 6, page 189
    • Here we see the very same restrictions, the same blind — and at best Daltonic — policies of the ideological leaders.1983, Rimvydas Šilbajoris, Mind Against the Wall: Essays on Lithuanian Culture Under Soviet Occupation, page 109

Forms of daltonic

alternative formDaltonic
alternative formdaltonic

Origin of daltonic

From Dalton + -ic.

Questions about daltonic

What does daltonic mean?
Daltonic means suffering from Daltonism; colour blind, especially red-green colour blind.
What part of speech is daltonic?
Daltonic is an adjective.

Words near daltonic in the dictionary

  1. Dalton-in-Furness
  2. Dalton-on-Tees
  3. daltonian
  4. Daltonianism
  5. daltonians
  6. daltonic
  7. daltonide
  8. daltonides
  9. daltonism
  10. daltonist
  11. daltonists

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