Usually means: Perception of light's wavelength variation.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. color: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. color: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. color: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. color: Collins English Dictionary
  5. color: Vocabulary.com
  6. Color, Color, color: Wordnik
  7. color: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. color: Wiktionary
  9. color: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. color: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. color: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. color, color: Dictionary.com
  13. color: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. color: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. COLOR, Color (album), Color (band), Color (disambiguation), Color (law), Color (manga), Color (medieval music), Color (software), Color (wine), Color, The Color: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Color: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. color: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. color: Rhymezone
  19. color, color: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. color: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. color: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. color: Free Dictionary
  23. color: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. color: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. color: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. color: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. Color: Eastern Philosophy
  5. color-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  6. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  7. Color: art glossary

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. color: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Colo(u)r, Color (law), Color (software), color: Legal dictionary
  7. Color (law): Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. color: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Colo(u)r, color: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Colo(u)r, -color, color: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. COLOR: Acronym Finder
  3. color: Idioms
  4. color: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  5. Color: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. color: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Color: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. color: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. color, color: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. color: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Color: Sports Definitions

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Color: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  4. Color: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  5. color: Canadian Soil Information System
  6. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Paper Making (No longer online)
  8. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
noun:  A subset thereof:
noun:  (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
noun:  (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
noun:  These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
noun:  (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
noun:  A paint.
noun:  (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
noun:  (medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
noun:  A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
noun:  (figuratively) Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
noun:  A standard, flag, or insignia:
noun:  (in the plural) A standard or banner.
noun:  (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
noun:  (in the plural) Gang insignia.
noun:  (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
noun:  (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
noun:  (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
noun:  (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
noun:  (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
noun:  (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
noun:  A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
noun:  An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
noun:  (mining) Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
adjective:  Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
verb:  (transitive) To give something color.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
verb:  (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
verb:  (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
verb:  To affect without completely changing.
verb:  (informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
verb:  (mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.

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