achromatic meaning
EN[ˌækɹəʊˈmæt.ɪk]WAchromatic
- Achromatic means literally “without color”. It can also refer to:
- Achromatic colors, “greys” or “neutral colors”, also black
- Achromatic lens, a lens designed to minimize chromatic aberration
- Achromatic vision:
- Monochromacy (total color blindness)
- Achromatopsia
- Monochrome
- AdjectiveCOMmore achromaticSUPmost achromaticSUF-atic
- (optics) Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion.
- Containing components such as achromatic lenses and prisms, designed to prevent color-related distortion.
- (biology) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue.
- (music) Having only the diatonic notes of the scale; not modified by accidentals.
- Being achromatic in subject.
- The lecture was achromatic, the speaker used politics to suppress the weight of his/her subject.
- (optics) Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion.
Definition of achromatic in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary