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Definition of Spectral colour
1. Noun. A color that has hue.
Generic synonyms: Color, Coloring, Colour, Colouring
Specialized synonyms: Red, Redness, Orange, Orangeness, Salmon, Yellow, Yellowness, Blond, Blonde, Green, Greenness, Viridity, Blue, Blueness, Purple, Purpleness, Pink, Brown, Brownness, Olive, Pastel, Complementary, Complementary Color
Terms within: Chroma, Intensity, Saturation, Vividness
Antonyms: Achromatic Color
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spectral Colour
Literary usage of Spectral colour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"In such a series of colour sensations we recognize a hue supplied by the spectral
colour, and we use the phrase more or less " saturated " to express the ..."
2. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"Again, taking a given area of the retina, we may, on the one hand, throw on to
the area a small amount of a spectral colour in such a way that all the ..."
3. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"In such a series of colour sensations we recognize a hue supplied by the spectral
colour, and we use the phrase more or less " saturated" to express the ..."
4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"In such a series of colour sensations we recognize a hue supplied by the spectral
colour, and we use the phrase more or less "saturated " to express the ..."
5. A Manual of Physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1918)
"... complementary colours may be equally well produced by the mixture of the
corresponding spectral colour with a certain quantity of ordinary white light. ..."
6. A Manual of physiology with practical exercises by George Neil Stewart (1910)
"... any non-saturated spectral colour produced by the mixture of two complementary
colours may be equally well produced by the mixture of the corresponding ..."
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