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Significats de achromaticity en anglès

The visual property of being without chromatic color.

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      Examples for "colourlessness"
      Examples for "colourlessness"
      1
      There was something about its very colourlessness which made it sound oracular.
      O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
      2
      He had a steely colourlessness, and a steely pliability, and a steely strength.
      Eminent Victorians
      3
      She was elderly, tall, and harshly thin, with a hard colourlessness of face.
      The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural
      4
      The brown flecks in the eyes seemed to spread and engulf the surrounding colourlessness.
      Cheerful—By Request
      5
      Odo suspected a certain colourlessness in the life she depicted.
      The Valley of Decision
      1
      He will find that he has not given exactly the proper curves to secure achromatism.
      Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
      2
      This artifice is specially adopted in objectives for astronomical photography (''pure actinic achromatism'').
      The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
      3
      Soc., 1878), the most suitable for visual instruments (''optical achromatism,').
      The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
      4
      The absence of this error is termed achromatism, and an optical system so corrected is termed achromatic.
      The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
      5
      As the diameter of the lens was so small in comparison with its focal length, its want of achromatism was inappreciable.
      Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light / Made at th...
      1
      Her sheeny hair and vivid makeup were dazzling against the colorlessness of the room.
      Another life altogether: a novel
      2
      She was clothed in velvet, which gave to her cheek and brow the colorlessness of marble.
      The Bronze Hand / 1897
      3
      The leached colorlessness, the depression in the forehead.
      Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
      4
      He exhaled noisily, letting the congregation know that he was sorry to fail them with his colorlessness.
      The Sirens of Titan
      5
      She looked very beautiful in her unconfined gown, the red tone heightening the creamy colorlessness of her face.
      Other Things Being Equal