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hyperbolic colours

hyperbolic colours is the plural 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.

Questions about hyperbolic colours

What is hyperbolic colours the plural of?
Hyperbolic colours is the plural of hyperbolic colour.

Words near hyperbolic colours in the dictionary

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

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