English

Etymology
Greek colorless; privative + color: compare French achromatique

Adjective
en-adj

1. optics Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion.
2. Containing components such as achromatic lenses and prisms, designed to prevent color-related distortion.
3. biology Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue
4. music Having only the diatonic notes of the scale; not modified by accidentals.
5. Being achromatic in subject: "The lecture was achromatic, the speaker used politics to suppress the weight of his/her subject."

Related terms
achromaticity
achromatism
achromatic lens
achromatic prism
chromatic

Translations

Chinese: ��差�(1,2); �����(3)
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Italian: acromatico (all)
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Category:Greek derivations
Category:Words with alpha privatives

ar:achromatic
be:achromatic
fr:achromatic
io:achromatic
pl:achromatic
ru:achromatic
te:achromatic
vi:achromatic

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