colour British English spelling


colour - noun

  • any material used for its color
  • a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
  • (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
  • interest and variety and intensity
  • the timbre of a musical sound
  • a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
  • an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
  • the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation

    • colour - verb

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