high color
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(computer graphics) graphics with two bytes of storage per pixel, allowing for up to 65536 different colors
(of a substance) a strong color
1796, Hannah Glasse, The art of cookery, made plain and easy, London: T. Longman, page 318:[…] put in as much tincture of saffron as will give them a high colour, but no currants […]
(of a person's appearance) a pinkness or redness of the face; having rosacea; having a flushed face
1709 September 2, The Female Tatler, page 1:[…] That when she had a high Colour she was very ill, and when she was pale, she was at Death's Door, […]
1796 December, George Forster, “Article IV: Voyage Philosephique et Pittoresque, &c.–A Philosophical and Picturesque Journey along the Banks of the Rhine, to Liege, through Flanders, Holland, &c. in the Year 1790”, in Analytical Review; Or, History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, page 592:[…] Their features are strongly marked, and their bodies are very fleshy, and cumbrous: they have a high colour in their cheeks, and the complexion is fair enough […]
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Fine-quality alexandrite has a green to bluish-green color in daylight (relatively blue illumination of high color temperature ), changing to a red to purplish-red color in incandescent light (relatively yellow illumination).
BASF will also launch a new range of natural mica-titanium dioxide-iron oxide platelets with high color saturation from the skin tone spectrum to fulfill the mineral makeup and natural foundation trend.
Raven® 5000 Ultra® II for solventborne high color coatings Raven® 5000 Ultra® II carbon black for solventborne high color coatings exhibits the finest particle size in the world.
When shooting with a bluish light (high color temperature) source such as on an overcast day, in the shade, in window light or if using tungsten film with white or blue light, a yellowish-orange filter will correct this.
This frequency was chosen to minimize the chrominance beat interference pattern that would be visible in areas of high color saturation in the transmitted picture.
Offers high color brilliance and depth, even at low dosage rates and is very temperature stable.