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impossible color

impossible color noun: a color that the human eye normally cannot see, but might seem to appear under rare conditions or due to visual illusions.

Noun

impossible color (plural impossible colors)

  1. A color that the human eye normally cannot see, but might seem to appear under rare conditions or due to visual illusions.
    • If you're still with us, there is one last impossible color we’d like to share. Imaginary colors are those that mathematically exist, sure, but we’ll never see them.2024 September 24, Tyler Thrasher, Terry Mudge, The Universe in 100 Colors: Weird and Wondrous Colors from Science and Nature, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 228
    • Self-luminous red, reddish green, stygian blue, and hyperbolic orange are all examples of impossible colors, a category that also includes chimerical, forbidden, imaginary, nonrealizable, and nonphysical colors. … There are two main categories of impossible color: those that lie just beyond human...2025 May 6, Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby, “2: An Archive of Impossible Objects”, in Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination, MIT Press, →ISBN

Forms of impossible color

pluralimpossible colors

Questions about impossible color

What does impossible color mean?
Impossible color means a color that the human eye normally cannot see, but might seem to appear under rare conditions or due to visual illusions.
What part of speech is impossible color?
Impossible color is a noun.
What is the plural of impossible color?
The plural of impossible color is impossible colors.

Words near impossible color in the dictionary

  1. impossibilities
  2. impossibility
  3. impossible
  4. impossible bottle
  5. impossible bottles
  6. impossible color
  7. impossible colors
  8. impossible dip
  9. impossible dips
  10. impossible dream
  11. impossible dreams

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