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Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or producing two colors; exhibiting or characterized by dichromatism. Also
dichroic and bichromatic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having or exhibiting two colors.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having two
colors . - adjective pathology having a form of
colorblindness in which only two of the threeprimary colors can be distinguished - adjective zoology having two independent channels for
conveying color information in theeye . - adjective biology
occurring orexisting in two differentornamentations or colors, typically as a form ofsexual dimorphism . - adjective optics having two
hues , either of which may be visible depending on both the concentration of the absorbing substance and the depth or thickness of the medium traversed, such as in pumpkin seed oil. A form of polychromatism. - adjective optics exhibiting
dichroism ;dichroic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having two colors
- adjective of or relating to dichromatism
Etymologies
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Examples
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All the males of most species, and many of the females, are dichromatic, meaning they only have two kinds of cone cells.
Archive 2009-05-01 Heather McDougal 2009
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All the males of most species, and many of the females, are dichromatic, meaning they only have two kinds of cone cells.
Drunk On Color Heather McDougal 2009
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This species is strongly dichromatic, meaning that the males and females have distinctive plumage colours and patterns -- a characteristic that distinguishes it from the monochromatic Cyprus pied wheatear, Oenanthe cypriaca, with which it was formerly considered to be conspecific.
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Nikon D300, 600 mm lens, 1.4 extender, ISO 640, f/13, 1/640 sec Question: This dichromatic Ethiopian mystery bird is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.
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This species is strongly dichromatic, meaning that the males and females have distinctive plumage colours and patterns -- a characteristic that distinguishes it from the monochromatic Cyprus pied wheatear, Oenanthe cypriaca, with which it was formerly considered to be conspecific.
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Nikon D300, 600 mm lens, 1.4 extender, ISO 640, f/13, 1/640 sec Question: This dichromatic Ethiopian mystery bird is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.
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No, in his somber dichromatic uniform, he seemed as plain as you or I.
Atticus 2010
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‘Code is Law’ provides a false dichromatic descriptive of a very colourful subject.
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He often accompany her to sit on the balcony, a chess, black and white and dichromatic attack, defense, row, universal, she gradually lost the game.
VInvesting.com dadswlxh 2010
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Beamsplitters acting as edge filters are often referred to as dichroic or dichromatic mirrors.
unknown title 2009
Related Words
synonyms (50)
Words with the same meaning
- bicolor
- bicolored
- chromatic
- cold
- colorful
- colorific
- coloring
- colory
- cool
- crazy
- daedal
- divers-colored
- glowing
- harlequin
- harmonious
- kaleidoscopic
- many-colored
- matching
- medley
- monochromatic
- monochrome
- monochromic
- motley
- multicolor
- multicolored
- multicolorous
- parti-color
- parti-colored
- pigmentary
- polychromatic
- prismal
- prismatic
- rainbow
- shot
- shot through
- spectral
- thunder and lightning
- tinctorial
- tingent
- toning
- trichromatic
- trichromic
- tricolor
- tricolored
- two-tone
- varicolored
- variegated
- versicolor
- versicolored
- warm
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