Usually means: Difference between light and dark.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word contrast:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. contrast: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. contrast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contrast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contrast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contrast: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contrast, contrast: Wordnik
  7. contrast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contrast: Wiktionary
  9. contrast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contrast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contrast: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Contrast, contrast: Dictionary.com
  13. contrast (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. contrast: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Contrast (Conor Maynard album), Contrast (EP), Contrast (Matt Fax album), Contrast (album), Contrast (formula), Contrast (linguistics), Contrast (literary), Contrast (music), Contrast (statistics), Contrast (video game), Contrast (vision), Contrast, The Contrast (band), The Contrast (play): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Contrast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. contrast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. contrast: Rhymezone
  19. Contrast, contrast (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. contrast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. contrast: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. contrast: Free Dictionary
  23. contrast: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. contrast: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. contrast: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Contrast: Glossary of Binary Graphics
  3. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  4. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  5. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  6. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contrast: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. contrast: CCI Computer
  2. contrast: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Contrast: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Contrast: Visionary
  4. contrast: Medical dictionary
  5. Contrast: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CONTRAST: Acronym Finder
  2. contrast: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)
  2. Contrast: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  4. Contrast: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contrast: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. contrast: Lighting Design Glossary
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Contrast: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  4. Glossary of Film/Video Terms (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  6. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  7. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A difference in lightness, brightness or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
noun:  (uncountable) The degree of this difference.
noun:  (countable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
noun:  (countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
noun:  (countable) Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.
noun:  (countable, uncountable, rhetoric) Antithesis.
verb:  (transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between; to counterpoint.
verb:  (intransitive) To form a contrast.

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