Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, or characterized by, four colors: said, especially, of normal daylight-vision, as contrasted with the monochromatic vision of total colorblindness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having four independent channels for
conveying color information.
Etymologies
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tetra- + chromatic
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Examples
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Birds have five types of cones including four single cones, which support tetrachromatic color vision and a double cone, which is thought to mediate achromatic motion perception.
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.. what kind of a picture would a tetrachromatic woman paint?
My question is ... Frank Wilson 2007
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Most people are trichromats, meaning their eyes have photorecptors for [[red]], [[blue]] and [[green]], but 2-3% of women (so far it has been seen in women only) are tetrachromatic.
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Most people are trichromats, meaning their eyes have photorecptors for [[red]], [[blue]] and [[yellow]], but 2-3% of women (so far it has been seen in women only) are tetrachromatic.
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