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Definition of Monochromatic vision
1. Noun. Complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness.
Generic synonyms: Color Blindness, Color Vision Deficiency, Colour Blindness, Colour Vision Deficiency
Derivative terms: Monochromatic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monochromatic Vision
Literary usage of Monochromatic vision
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Colour Vision: Being the Tyndall Lectures Delivered in 1894 at the Royal by William de Wiveleslie Abney (1895)
"The persistency curve C, when applied (in a Euclidean sense) to the curve of
luminosity recorded for the men who had monochromatic vision, almost exactly ..."
2. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1896)
"So for other cases, and monochromatic vision should be of red, green, or violet,
... Cases of monochromatic vision would, on Hering's theory, usually be of ..."
3. Researches in Colour Vision and the Trichromatic Theory by William de Wiveleslie Abney (1913)
"Cases of monochromatic vision. The first is a type of colour blindness in ...
It is usually supposed that this monochromatic vision is due to some form of ..."
4. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Sir David Brewster (1831)
"In reference to the perfection of monochromatic vision, the following experiment
will be decisive. Place a printed page of a small type upon a table ..."
5. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"An account of a case of monochromatic vision. The patient's luminosity curve is
given. All colours he matched with white with the same facility as if they ..."
6. Light and Colour Theories and Their Relation to Light and Colour Standardization by Joseph Williams Lovibond (1915)
"In connexion with these co-related dimensions, some information is obtainable
bearing on the limitation of a monochromatic vision for discriminating small ..."
7. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"Greater abnormalities may take the form of dichromatic and monochromatic vision.
The latter is a rare pathological condition in which all colors are ..."
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