dichromic

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek [Term?]

Adjective

dichromic (not comparable)

  1. furnishing or giving two colours; said of defective vision, in which all the compound colours are resolvable into two elements instead of three
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir J. Herschel to this entry?)
  2. containing two atoms of chromium

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dichromic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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