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Monochromatic   Listen
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Monochromatic  adj.  Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only.
Monochromatic lamp (Opt.),a lamp whose flame yields rays of some one homogenous light. It is of great importance in optical experiments.






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"Monochromatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... evaded by attending to its Greek designation, namely, porphyry-colored: since, said he, porphyry is always of the same color. Not at all. Porphyry, I have heard, runs through as large a gamut of hues as marble; but, if this should be an exaggeration, at all events porphyry is far from being so monochromatic as Gibbon's argument would presume. The truth is, colors were as loosely and latitudinarially distinguished by the Greeks and Romans as degrees of affinity and consanguinity are everywhere. My son-in-law, says a woman, and she means my ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey



Words linked to "Monochromatic" :   monochromic, homochromatic, monochromatism, colorful, monochrome, monochromous, coloured, colored, monochromatic vision



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