Contextualizebeta

normally black

adj

Etymology

From normally (“no voltage”) + black (“opaque”).

  1. inherited from *bʰleg-✻
  2. inherited from *blakaz✻
  3. inherited from *blak✻
  4. inherited from blæc
  5. inherited from blak
  6. compounded as normally black — “normally + black”

Definitions

  1. for LCD to be opaque and thus black when voltage is not applied to a pixel electrode and…

    for LCD to be opaque and thus black when voltage is not applied to a pixel electrode and transparent and thus white when voltage is applied.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for normally black. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA