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hexachromatic

adj

Etymology

From hexa- + chromatic.

  1. derived from *gʰer-✻ — “to grind; to rub; to stroke; to remove”
  2. derived from χρωματικός — “relating to colour; one of the three types of tetrachord in Greek music”
  3. borrowed from chrōmaticus
  4. borrowed from chromatique — “chromatic”
  5. prefixed as hexachromatic — “hexa + chromatic”

Definitions

  1. Able to distinguish six distinct colors.

  2. Having six independent channels or dimensions for characterizing color information.

    • The scale contains 493 separate sensations, which are structurally hexachromatic and visually colourless.
    • If a subject with normal (trichromatic) color vision wears the glasses in Fig. 8.24, his vision will be hexachromatic (six-color).

  3. Composed of or based on six colors.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Having six different pitch classes

      • These divisors generate what may be called pentachromatic, pentenharmonic, hexachromatic, and hexenharmonic genera.

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