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Definition of Achromatic
1. Adjective. Having no hue. "Neutral colors like black or white"
Attributes: Chromaticity, Hue
Similar to: Argent, Silver, Silverish, Silvery, Ash-gray, Ash-grey, Ashy, Blackish, Black-gray, Black-grey, Blackish-gray, Blackish-grey, Blue-white, Bluish-white, Cool-white, Blue-gray, Blue-grey, Bluish-gray, Bluish-grey, Blue-black, Bluish Black, Brown-black, Brownish-black, Brown-gray, Brown-grey, Brownish-gray, Brownish-grey, Canescent, Chalky, Charcoal, Charcoal-gray, Charcoal-grey, Coal-black, Jet, Jet-black, Pitchy, Sooty, Cottony-white, Dull-white, Ebon, Ebony, Gray, Grayish, Grey, Greyish, Gray-black, Grayish-black, Grey-black, Greyish-black, Gray-white, Grayish-white, Grey-white, Greyish-white, Greenish-gray, Greenish-grey, Green-white, Greenish-white, Hueless, Ink-black, Inky, Inky-black, Iron-gray, Iron-grey, Lily-white, Milk-white, Olive-gray, Olive-grey, Dark-gray, Dark-grey, Oxford-gray, Oxford-grey, Pearl Gray, Pearl Grey, Pearly, Pearly-white, Pinkish-white, Purple-black, Purplish-black, Purple-white, Purplish-white, Red-gray, Red-grey, Reddish-gray, Reddish-grey, Sable, Silver-gray, Silver-grey, Silvery-gray, Silvery-grey, Silver-white, Silvery-white, Slate-black, Slate-gray, Slate-grey, Slatey, Slaty, Slaty-gray, Slaty-grey, Stone-gray, Stone-grey, Snow-white, Snowy, Soot-black, Sooty-black, Violet-black, White-flowered, Off-white, Whitish, Yellow-gray, Yellow-grey, Yellowish-gray, Yellowish-grey, Yellow-white, Yellowish-white
Also: Colorless, Colourless
Derivative terms: Achromatize
Antonyms: Chromatic
Definition of Achromatic
1. a. Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.
Definition of Achromatic
1. Adjective. (optics) Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion. ¹
2. Adjective. Containing components such as achromatic lenses and prisms, designed to prevent color-related distortion. ¹
3. Adjective. (biology) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue ¹
4. Adjective. (music) Having only the diatonic notes of the scale; not modified by accidentals. ¹
5. Adjective. Being achromatic in subject ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Achromatic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Achromatic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Achromatic
Literary usage of Achromatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1902)
"But the system of bands is not usually achromatic. Thus, in Fresnel's experiment
the centre of symmetry fixes the position of the central achromatic band, ..."
2. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
"Beck's achromatic Condenser. made to move inwards simultaneously, ... achromatic
Condensers.—In almost every ease in which an Objective of l-4th inch or any ..."
3. Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics by James Ferguson (1806)
"achromatic Although a brief account of the achromatic telescope has been given
by those who nave written upon optics, since the invention of that instrument ..."
4. How to Work with the Microscope by Lionel Smith Beale (1870)
"achromatic Condenser.—The illumination of some objects examined with high powers
is much improved by causing the light to pass through an achromatic ..."
5. On the Improvement of Society by the Diffusion of Knowledge, Or, An by Thomas Dick (1833)
"One of the latest improvements on achromatic object- glasses was made by a
foreigner of the name of Guinand, who was originally a cabinet-maker. ..."
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