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Significados de achromaticity en inglés

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