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Meaning of "colour temperature" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COLOUR TEMPERATURE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLOUR TEMPERATURE

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Colour temperature 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 TEMPERATURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Color temperature

The color temperature of a light source is the temperature of an ideal black-body radiator that radiates light of comparable hue to that of the light source. Color temperature is a characteristic of visible light that has important applications in lighting, photography, videography, publishing, manufacturing, astrophysics, horticulture, and other fields. In practice, color temperature is only meaningful for light sources that do in fact correspond somewhat closely to the radiation of some black body, i.e. those on a line from reddish/orange via yellow and more or less white to blueish white; it does not make sense to speak of the color temperature of e.g. a green or a purple light. Color temperature is conventionally stated in the unit of absolute temperature, the kelvin, having the unit symbol K. Color temperatures over 5,000K are called cool colors, while lower color temperatures are called warm colors. This relation, however, is a psychological one in contrast to the physical relation implied by Wien's displacement law, according to which the spectral peak is shifted towards shorter wavelengths for higher temperatures.

Definition of colour temperature in the English dictionary

The definition of colour temperature in the dictionary is the temperature of a black-body radiator at which it would emit radiation of the same chromaticity as the light under consideration.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLOUR TEMPERATURE

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colour film
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colour index
colour line
colour phase
colour photograph
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colour printer
colour scheme
colour separation
colour separation overlay
colour sergeant
colour slide
colour subcarrier
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colour television
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WORDS THAT END LIKE COLOUR TEMPERATURE

adventure
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Mother Nature
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Synonyms and antonyms of colour temperature in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «colour temperature» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLOUR TEMPERATURE

Find out the translation of colour temperature to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of colour temperature 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 temperature» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

色温
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

temperatura de color
570 millions of speakers

English

colour temperature
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रंग तापमान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

درجة حرارة اللون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

цветовая температура
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

temperatura de cor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রঙ তাপমাত্রা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

température de couleur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Suhu warna
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Farbtemperatur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

色温度
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

색온도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Suhu werna
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhiệt độ màu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வண்ண வெப்பநிலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रंग तापमान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Renk sıcaklığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

temperatura di colore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

temperatura barwowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

колірна температура
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

temperatura de culoare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θερμοκρασία χρώματος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kleurtemperatuur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

färgtemperatur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fargetemperatur
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of colour temperature

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLOUR TEMPERATURE»

The term «colour temperature» is normally little used and occupies the 108.811 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLOUR TEMPERATURE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLOUR TEMPERATURE»

Discover the use of colour temperature in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to colour temperature and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Road Lighting for Safety
Table 7.4.1: The colour temperature lor a number ol well-known sources ol light ( alter Philips, 1989) Light source Colour temperature (in K) Candle 2000 Carbon filament lamp 2100 Incandescent lamp 2800 Halogen incandescent lamp' 3000 ...
D. A. Schreuder, 1998
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Wood Coatings: Theory and Practice
Light energy, colour temperature and damage All objects are made up of millions of molecules each of which changes its state in discrete all or nothing steps. Each molecule will stay in its ground state unless energy at least sufficient to ...
Franco Bulian, Jon Graystone, 2009
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Lighting for Driving: Roads, Vehicles, Signs, and Signals
Therefore, the lighting industry has used the CIE colourimetry system to derive two single-number metrics to characterize the colour properties of light sources: correlated colour temperature (CCT) and the CIE General Colour Rendering Index ...
Peter R. Boyce, 2008
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Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety
A colour temperature is associated with the different forms of illumination. The sensation of satisfaction with the illumination of a given environment depends on this colour temperature. In this way, for example, a 100 W incandescent filament ...
Jeanne Mager Stellman, 1998
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Getting Colour Right: The Complete Guide to Colour Correction
Getting. the. whites. right. If we want to have any control over reproduced colour, we need to standardize what we mean by 'white' light. To quantify this effect, we use a measure called colour temperature ...
Michael Walker, Neil Barstow, 2004
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The Reproduction of Colour
But such lamps have their average life extended as a result of the iodine cycle and higher gas pressure reducing the evaporation of tungsten; or they can be run at a higher colour temperature than ordinary lamps for the same average life.
R. W. G. Hunt, 2005
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Basic Betacam Camerawork
Colour temperature Because of the fidelity with which the camera reproduces colour, it is important to have a means of measuring colour and changes in colour . This is achieved by using the Kelvin scale – a measure of the colour temperature ...
Peter Ward, 2001
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Advanced Photography
For the D50 illuminant the correlated colour temperature is 5000 K and for D65 it is 6500 K. Their spectral power distribution is shown in Figure 4.7. Most photographic films have been designed for lighting conditions with colour temperature of ...
Michael Langford, 1998
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Langford's Advanced Photography
Colour temperature also changes 4. Other types of powerful light source with different colour temperatures are In cases where the lighting is uncertain it is very helpful to measure the colour temperature using a colour-temperature meter (see  ...
Efthimia Bilissi, Michael Langford, 2013
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Practical Cinematography
So, remember the actual temperature required to achieve a given colour temperature is the reverse of how we emotionally react to the colour of light emitted. The colour temperature of a source is deemed to be the temperature of the source in ...
Paul Wheeler, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLOUR TEMPERATURE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term colour temperature is used in the context of the following news items.
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Helvar Issues Update for SceneSet Mobile App
The Orb control now made it easier to control the colour temperature and intensity of tuneable white luminaires and the hue, saturation and ... «HiddenWires, Jul 15»
2
This Bacteria-Slaying Light Fixture Is Perfectly Safe For Humans
But it's more than just an issue of preferable colour temperature for bacteria and other harmful micro-organisms lurking in the room. The HINS ... «Gizmodo Australia, Jul 15»
3
What is raw capture and do I need it on my phone?
... you'll use and gives you the chance to correct things that the settings on the camera might have got wrong, such as the colour temperature. «Pocket-lint.com, Jul 15»
4
Review: The BlackBerry Leap tries too hard to be fun
The Leap does, however, sport one of the brightest screens I have seen in a while with good contrast levels. The colour temperature, however, ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
5
Asus G751JL review | TrustedReviews
The average Delta E of 5.3 is middling, but the colour temperature of 6,490K is excellent. The upshot of this is that the overall tone of the display ... «TrustedReviews, Jul 15»
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What is raw capture and do I need it on my smartphone?
... you'll use and gives you the chance to correct things that the settings on the camera might have got wrong, such as the colour temperature. «Pocket-lint.com, Jul 15»
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How to make great canvas prints using your smartphone
These will allow you to adjust the image's contrast, colour temperature and more. Learning how to make these little tweaks doesn't take too ... «Manchester Evening News, Jul 15»
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Dell's new Inspirons include laptops, desktops and 2-in-1s
... a precision touchpad, backlit keyboard and True Color, which allows for customization of the display's colour temperature, vibrancy and tone. «ITBusiness.ca, Jul 15»
9
InFocus M350 review: Simple but clever design
There is also a setting that allows the user to adjust the colour temperature on the screen—natural, warm and cool, depending on whether you ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
10
Architectural lighting focus for Abu Dhabi summit
LED lighting in a building's structure has the ability to enhance a particular ambience by changing the colour temperature of light. «Trade Arabia, Jul 15»

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