primary colour

1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) Also called additive primary any of three spectral colours (usually red, green, and blue) that can be mixed to match any other colour, including white light but excluding black

2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) Also called subtractive primary any one of the spectral colours cyan, magenta, or yellow that can be subtracted from white light to match any other colour. An equal mixture of the three produces a black pigment

3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) Also called psychological primary any one of the colours red, yellow, green, or blue. All other colours look like a mixture of two or more of these colours and they play a unique role in the processing of colour by the visual system See also secondary colour, complementary colour

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primary colour - any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing

primary color

color, coloring, colouring, colour - a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"

primary color for pigments, primary colour for pigments - any of three pigments from which all colors can be obtained by mixing; "the primary colors for pigments are red, blue, and yellow"

primary color for light, primary colour for light - any of three primary colors of light from which all colors can be obtained by additive mixing; "the primary colors for light are red, blue, and green"

Translations

primary colour n → colore m fondamentale

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It scintillated nine different and distinct rays; the seven primary colours of our earthly prism and the two rays which are unknown upon Earth, but whose wondrous beauty is indescribable.

The Gods of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

primary aircraft authorization

primary aircraft inventory

Primary alcohol

primary amenorrhea