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dichromic

dichromic adjective: furnishing or giving two colours; said of defective vision, in which all the compound colours are resolvable into two elements instead of three.

Adjective

dichromic (not comparable)

  1. furnishing or giving two colours; said of defective vision, in which all the compound colours are resolvable into two elements instead of three
    • Their vision is therefore, in fact, dichromic; all their compound colours are resolvable into two elements only instead of three.1866, Sir J. Herschel, Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects
  2. containing two atoms of chromium

Origin of dichromic

From di- + Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”) + -ic.

Words formed from dichromic

Questions about dichromic

What does dichromic mean?
Dichromic means furnishing or giving two colours; said of defective vision, in which all the compound colours are resolvable into two elements instead of three.
What part of speech is dichromic?
Dichromic is an adjective.

Words near dichromic in the dictionary

  1. dichromating
  2. dichromatism
  3. dichromatisms
  4. dichromatopsia
  5. dichromats
  6. dichromic
  7. dichromic acid
  8. dichromism
  9. dichromium
  10. dichromophoric
  11. dichronic

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