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chroma

[kroh-muh] / ˈkroʊ mə /






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It’s deceptively conventional, with an axial structure and a conglomerate of relatively full chroma set against an off-white background.

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

But if there’s a little bit more ambient lighting, colors look washed out, or low in chroma.

From Salon Nov. 16, 2024

The Watts Towers aim to split the sky into chroma, spires tiled with rubble nothing less than aspiration.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 2024

First there was Robert Musil the mechanical engineer, who invented a chroma meter, a device for evaluating color.

From New York Times Dec. 5, 2019

Any color describes its light and strength by its location in the solid or on the surface, and is named by its place in the combined scales of hue, value, and chroma.

From A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma by A. H. (Albert Henry) Munsell




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