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Meaning of "colour contrast" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COLOUR CONTRAST

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLOUR CONTRAST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Colour contrast is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COLOUR CONTRAST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of colour contrast in the English dictionary

The definition of colour contrast in the dictionary is the change in the appearance of a colour surrounded by another colour; for example, grey looks bluish if surrounded by yellow.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLOUR CONTRAST

colour bar
colour blindness
colour camera
colour chart
colour code
colour commentator
colour film
colour filter
colour guard
colour index
colour line
colour phase
colour photograph
colour photography
colour printer
colour scheme
colour separation
colour separation overlay
colour sergeant
colour slide

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLOUR CONTRAST

at least
at the least
breakfast
cast
coast
contrast
deep in the past
east
fast
feast
forecast
in the least
last
least
metaphrast
Middle East
paederast
paraphrast
past
pederast

Synonyms and antonyms of colour contrast in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «colour contrast» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLOUR CONTRAST

Find out the translation of colour contrast to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of colour contrast from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «colour contrast» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

色彩对比
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

contraste de color
570 millions of speakers

English

colour contrast
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रंग विपरीत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تباين الألوان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

цветовой контраст
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

contraste de cor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রঙ বৈসাদৃশ্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le contraste des couleurs
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kontras warna
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Farbkontrast
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

色の対比
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

색상 대비
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kontras werna
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

màu sắc tương phản
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிற வேறுபாடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रंगीत तीव्रता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Renk kontrastı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

contrasto di colore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kontrast kolorów
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

колірної контраст
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

contrastul de culoare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χρωματική αντίθεση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kleur kontras
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

färgkontrast
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fargekontrast
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of colour contrast

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLOUR CONTRAST»

The term «colour contrast» is regularly used and occupies the 61.636 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of colour contrast
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLOUR CONTRAST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «colour contrast» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «colour contrast» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about colour contrast

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLOUR CONTRAST»

Discover the use of colour contrast in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to colour contrast and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Wayfinding: Effective Wayfinding and Signing Systems; ...
... and blue • Consideration must be given to users of your site who are visually impaired. There must be a high colour contrast between text colour, sign colour and background • Safety colours need to be considered when choosing colours for ...
‎2005
2
The Colour, Light and Contrast Manual: Designing and ...
One publication describing the findings of Project Rainbow, 'Colour, Contrast and Perception', is identified as a main source of credible guidance both in British Standards and Building Regulations. Since Project Rainbow, other important ...
Keith Bright, Geoffrey Cook, 2010
3
Principles and Practice of Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision
inherited maculopathies, optic atrophies, diabetes, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and—last but not least—drug toxicities. REFERENCES 1. Allen LE, Luff AJ, Canning CR: Survey of colour contrast sensitivity in non- ophthalamic ...
John R. Heckenlively, Geoffrey Bernard Arden, 2006
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An Introduction to the Study of Colour Vision
Those of Pretori and Sachs3 on colour contrast are scarcely comprehensible except in terms of the theory and may now be mentioned. These authors endeavoured to discover the quantitative relations underlying colour contrast. According to ...
John Herbert Parsons, 2013
5
Moving the Eye Through 2-D Design: A Visual Primer
Summary of colour Colour is defined by three contrasts – colour contrast, value contrast and warm to cool contrast. Colour contrast: High colour contrast occurs between pure colours of the visible spectrum. Pure colours are represented in ...
Buy Shaver, 2010
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Human-Computer Interaction: Theory and Practice
After some experiment, it was decided to adopt the more recent recommendations and the colour contrast fuzzy model will give this a lower usability rate than the dark background/light text combination. The corresponding fuzzy rule used to ...
Julie A. Jacko, Constantine Stephanidis, 2003
7
Colour in Food: Improving Quality
Helmholtz (1866) offered a physiological explanation for such successive colour contrast or negative after-images. His explanation of the example of looking at a grey surface after prolonged inspection of a red square was that the inspection of  ...
Douglas B. MacDougall, 2002
8
Orientation and Communication in Arthropods
Definition of intensity contrast, colour contrast, and receptor-specific contrasts Spatial vision is based on partitioning the image into contrasting pixels, the size of which (and therefore the fineness of the image) being dependent on the spatial  ...
Miriam Lehrer, 1997
9
Vision Rehabilitation
Highly reflective floor surfaces should be avoided, reflections are not only confusing but may at instances cause discomforting glare. Most of the participants (over 80%) who took part in the colour contrast tests (observing over 1500 different ...
Aries Arditi, Amy Horowitz, Mary Ann Lang, 2000
10
The World Of Colour
This fundamental phenomenological error has led to untenable theories. How does Jaensch come to the conclusion that colour-constancy and colour-contrast have a common origin ? He infers it from the far-reaching parallel between the laws ...
Katz, David, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLOUR CONTRAST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term colour contrast is used in the context of the following news items.
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LG's curved OLED 4K TV launches – the best TV money can buy just …
Instead of a backlight needing to light the panel, causing dark scenes to be difficult to see well, OLED offers a true black, with a colour contrast ... «Techly, Jul 15»
2
Tesla Model S P85D on T-Sportline Wheels by KVK Photography
This one of a kind build is full of sportiness and colour contrast taking this the P85D to another level of customization. The exterior modification ... «GTspirit, Jul 15»
3
Review: LG G4, near perfect flagship
Photos taken with it showed more detail but the colour contrast was lack-lustre. The rear camera has a resolution of 5312 x 2988 pixels and has ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
4
Paris Fashion Week: Christian Dior and Balmain bring Argyle knits …
That colour contrast was used in voile suiting, coats, or with lining seemingly flipped inside-out: a crocodile blouson looked like a fat satsuma. «The Independent, Jun 15»
5
Journey of discovery through eclectic menu
Oh, and there's that strong colour contrast thing too - with bright red bar stools to counter the dark grey. In fact, everything looks really nice on its ... «THE BUSINESS TIMES, Jun 15»
6
A niche in décor
Colour contrast. Niches can themselves be turned into an artistic piece where the colours within the niches can be contrasting, where the wall ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»
7
Thunder Bay city hall renovations promise improved accessibility
... new paint, and paint the doors and the frames and make them more accessibility friendly, in terms of colour contrast and that sort of thing.". «CBC.ca, Jun 15»
8
LG highlights G4 photo features for Canadian launch
The LG G4 features a 16 megapixel camera offering brighter, more detailed images, low-light capabilities, superior colour contrast and a ... «Telecompaper, Jun 15»
9
Gotti, guns and gay bars: Inside NYC's mob history
When you wear these lenses colour contrast becomes richer and glare is reduced even in the brightest sunlight. See life through our lenses ... «Herald Sun, Jun 15»
10
Kris Jenner enjoys dinner with Corey Gamble but Caitlyn Jenner …
Adding a little colour contrast, Kris carried a small beige purse to accessorise. Kris Jenner toyboy Corey Gamble head out for dinner in LA ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Colour contrast [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/colour-contrast>. May 2024 ».
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