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orthochromatic

adj
/ˈɔː.θə.kɹəˈmæt.ɪk/UK/ˌoɹ.θə.kɹəˈmæt.ɪk/US

Etymology

From ortho- + 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 orthochromatic — “ortho + chromatic”

Definitions

  1. Being uniformly sensitive across the entire visible range, and thus reproducing colours…

    Being uniformly sensitive across the entire visible range, and thus reproducing colours faithfully

  2. Sensitive to all colours except red

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for orthochromatic. 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