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HSL

HSL is the initialism of hue, saturation, lightness or initialism of hue.

HSL is the initialism of Hawaiʻi Sign Language.

Meaning of hue

Noun (1)

hue (countable and uncountable, plural hues)

  1. A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
    • A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of...1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 39–40
  2. The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
    • In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.
  3. (figuratively) Character; aspect.
    • This puts a completely different hue on the matter.
  4. (obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.

Noun (2)

hue (plural hues)

  1. (obsolete) A shout or cry.

See all 7 meanings of hue

Synonyms of HSL

Questions about HSL

What is HSL the initialism of hue, saturation, lightness or initialism of?
HSL is the initialism of hue, saturation, lightness or initialism of hue.

Words near HSL in the dictionary

  1. Hsiushan
  2. Hsiuwu
  3. Hsiyin
  4. Hsiyu
  5. HSK
  6. HSL
  7. HSM
  8. HSMs
  9. HSMTMTS
  10. HSN
  11. HSP

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