Definitions

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  • noun The quality of having three independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.

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  • noun the normal ability to see colors

Etymologies

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tri- + Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khroma, "color").

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Examples

  • The example provided by the uses of trichromacy is thus also an excellent model — within this larger object, color — of eighteenth-century interaction between practice and theory.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • This property of human vision, called trichromacy, arises because the retina the layer of nerve cells in the eye that captures light and transmits visual information to the brain uses only three types of light-absorbing pigments for color vision.

    Scientific American 2009

  • It is called trichromacy, because it depends on three types of light - activated pigments in the retina of the eye.

    Scientific American 2009

  • This is the physiological basis for what is called “trichromacy,” that is, the three-color basis for human color vision.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • This is the physiological basis for what is called “trichromacy,” that is, the three-color basis for human color vision.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • This is the physiological basis for what is called “trichromacy,” that is, the three-color basis for human color vision.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • This is the physiological basis for what is called “trichromacy,” that is, the three-color basis for human color vision.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • In this determination to refine the practical details of trichromacy, Quemiset's work is again typical.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • The result casts some typical ideas of his time, notably the emphasis on trichromacy and the description of vision, into a new vocabulary without accompanying conceptual changes.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Practical realities underlying the ideal of trichromacy and the creation of black and white limited the use of practices in the explanation of theories.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

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