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Significados de colourlessness em inglês

The visual property of being without chromatic color.

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Examples for "achromatism"
Examples for "achromatism"
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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
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This artifice is specially adopted in objectives for astronomical photography (''pure actinic achromatism'').
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Soc., 1878), the most suitable for visual instruments (''optical achromatism,').
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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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
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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...
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Her sheeny hair and vivid makeup were dazzling against the colorlessness of the room.
Another life altogether: a novel
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She was clothed in velvet, which gave to her cheek and brow the colorlessness of marble.
The Bronze Hand / 1897
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The leached colorlessness, the depression in the forehead.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
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He exhaled noisily, letting the congregation know that he was sorry to fail them with his colorlessness.
The Sirens of Titan
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She looked very beautiful in her unconfined gown, the red tone heightening the creamy colorlessness of her face.
Other Things Being Equal
Uso de colourlessness em inglês
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There was something about its very colourlessness which made it sound oracular.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
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He had a steely colourlessness, and a steely pliability, and a steely strength.
Eminent Victorians
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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
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The brown flecks in the eyes seemed to spread and engulf the surrounding colourlessness.
Cheerful—By Request
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Odo suspected a certain colourlessness in the life she depicted.
The Valley of Decision
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Everything about her was pale to the point of colourlessness.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
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I seem to recall an atmosphere of drab colourlessness in the streets of Stockholm.
The Guardian
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The colourlessness of his own mind took on for the time the colour of the other's.
What Necessity Knows
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With all the achromatic clearness, the unromantic colourlessness of the early morning....
Love and Mr. Lewisham
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Compared with this tawny colourlessness, this evil brow, this shut mouth, Laura, even on the battle-field, looked harmless.
Vittoria — Volume 7
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The years slipped by, one by one, so like each other in their colourlessness that I forgot to take account of them.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
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She gave him altogether an impression of colourlessness, and he had been living in a land where colour and vitality meant much.
The Vanished Messenger
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She could not doubt that she was beloved, in spite of the colourlessness and tonelessness of a love that appealed to her intellect.
Vittoria — Volume 7
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Then the crimson tide as suddenly ebbed, she grew ghastly in her colourlessness, and her bloodless lips writhed, as she called after the retreating figure:
Infelice
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There was something about its very colourlessness which made it sound oracular.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
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He had a steely colourlessness, and a steely pliability, and a steely strength.
Eminent Victorians
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