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Definition of Color spectrum
1. Noun. The distribution of colors produced when light is dispersed by a prism.
Generic synonyms: Spectrum
Group relationships: Electromagnetic Spectrum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Color Spectrum
Literary usage of Color spectrum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles and Practice of Show-card Writing, Prepared in the Extension by Lawrence E. Blair (1922)
"... small degree for elevating the lettering of cards from a trade into a branch
of commercial art. 51. color spectrum.—White light is in reality a compound ..."
2. The Art of Illumination by Louis Bell (1912)
"9, is shown the spectrum of the light reflected from a bright-red book, ie, the
color spectrum which defines that particular red. It extends from a deep red ..."
3. Prismatic and Diffraction Spectra by Joseph von Fraunhofer, William Hyde Wollaston (1899)
"In the space L'L" there is a vivid color-spectrum, which is indigo near L1, then
blue, green, yellow, and near L" red. The color-spectrum in the space ..."
4. Textbook of Printing Occupations by Clifford Wilson Hague (1922)
"mixture of blue and yellow and contributes the remaining colors necessary to form
the color spectrum. See color spectrum. Composing Stick—A metal tray with ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"... no wide survey of cases has failed to reveal a considerable number of marginal
forms which were neither normal nor limited to a two-color spectrum. ..."
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