dichromic

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adjective

furnishing or giving two colours; said of defective vision, in which all the compound colours are resolvable into two elements instead of three

OriginAncient Greek χρῶμα →
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Meanings

adjectivedichromic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablefurnishing or giving two colours; said of defective vision, in which all the compound colours are resolvable into two elements instead of three

    Their vision is therefore, in fact, dichromic; all their compound colours are resolvable into two elements only instead of three.

    1866, Sir J. Herschel, Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects
  2. not comparablecontaining two atoms of chromium

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekχρῶμα“color”
  2. Englishdichromic

From di- + Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”) + -ic.

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Translations

Greek διχρωμικός
  • διχρωμικός (dichromikós)containing two atoms of chromium
Italian dicromico
  • dicromicocontaining two atoms of chromium
Portuguese dicrômico
  • dicrômicocontaining two atoms of chromium
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