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Any of three colors which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colors
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Red, blue and green are additive primary colors.
- Magenta, yellow and cyan are subtractive primary colors.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: primary colour
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: color, colour, coloring, colouring
Narrower terms: primary color for pigments, primary colour for pigments, primary color for light, primary colour for light
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
color primari
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Chinese Mandarin:
原色
(yuánsè)
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Chinese Mandarin:
基色
(jīsè)
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Finnish:
pääväri
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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French:
couleur primaire
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Galician:
cor primaria
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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German:
Grundfarbe
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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German:
Primärfarbe
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Greek:
βασικό χρώμα
(vasikó chróma)
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Gujarati:
મૂળ રંગ
(mūḷ raṅg)
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Japanese:
原色
(genshoku)
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Korean:
원색
(wonsaek)
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Māori:
tae mātāmua
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Polish:
barwa podstawowa
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Romanian:
culoare primară
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Romanian:
culoare fundamentală
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Spanish:
color primario
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
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Tagalog:
pangunahing kulay
— any of three colors which can generate all other colors
