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Definition of Magenta

1. Adjective. Of deep purplish red.

2. Noun. A primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta.

3. Noun. A battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I.

Definition of Magenta

1. n. An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseïne, etc.

Definition of Magenta

1. Proper noun. a town in Northern Italy, site of the Battle of Magenta after which the color ''magenta'' was named. ¹

2. Noun. A light purple, purplish-red, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing. ¹

3. Adjective. having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Magenta

1. a purplish red dye [n -S]

Medical Definition of Magenta

1. An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface colour, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the colour; so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Synonym: fuchsine, roseine, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Magenta

magazines magazining magazinist magazinists magbasite magbote magdala magdalenes magdalens magdaleon

mage magellanic magenta (current term) magenta tongue magentas magery mages mageship mageships magg

magged maggid maggidim maggids maggies magging maggiore

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