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Definition of Chromas
1. chroma [n] - See also: chroma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chromas
Literary usage of Chromas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Color Notation by Albert Henry Munsell (1905)
"Compare three chromas with three values of red- Name them WEAK, MIDDLE, and STRONG
chromas. Find in nature and art. 3. THREE chromas of BED. ..."
2. Clothing for Women; Selection, Design, Construction: A Practical Manual for by Laura Irene Baldt (1916)
"A Chart of chromas.—Use same color scale as in chart of values (red). Mount one-inch
squares. Then taking the middle value of the hue red, decrease it in ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"The tints and lesser chromas were obtained by mixing in the requisite amounts of
Bk-W. The observer sat at a table facing a screen. ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... join the flying throng: Next chromas and Hippodamus appear, ... To turn the
chariot, ardent chromas flew ..."
5. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"... its extremes (the purples) may be experienced in a number of chromas, and that
each of these chromas, in turn, may present itself in a number of tints. ..."
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