English
Etymology
Greek colorless; privative + color: compare French achromatique
Adjective
en-adj
- 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."
Related terms
achromaticity
achromatism
achromatic lens
achromatic prism
chromatic
Translations
Chinese: ��差�(1,2); �����(3)
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Italian: acromatico (all)
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Category:Greek derivations
Category:Words with alpha privatives
ar:achromatic
be:achromatic
fr:achromatic
io:achromatic
pl:achromatic
ru:achromatic
te:achromatic
vi:achromatic
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