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hyperbolic color

hyperbolic color is the alternative spelling of hyperbolic colour.

Meaning of hyperbolic colour

Noun

hyperbolic colour (plural hyperbolic colours)

  1. The type of colour perceived when a visual afterimage is viewed on a background of the same colour, resulting in a purer perception of that colour than is ordinarily possible to perceive; usually achieved by staring at a shape in one colour (e.g. cyan) for several seconds, and then immediately looking at a background in the opposite colour (e.g. orange), which is the same colour as the resultant afterimage.

Forms of hyperbolic color

pluralhyperbolic colors

Questions about hyperbolic color

What is hyperbolic color the alternative spelling of?
Hyperbolic color is the alternative spelling of hyperbolic colour.

Words near hyperbolic color in the dictionary

  1. hyperbole
  2. hyperboles
  3. hyperbolic
  4. hyperbolic angle
  5. hyperbolic angles
  6. hyperbolic color
  7. hyperbolic colors
  8. hyperbolic colour
  9. hyperbolic colours
  10. hyperbolic cosecant
  11. hyperbolic cosine

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