Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To rid of color; render achromatic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render achromatic; deprive of color, or of the power of transmitting colored light. Also spelled
achromatise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of color; to make achromatic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
deprive ofcolour ; to makeachromatic . - verb To remove
chromatic aberration from an optical system
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove color from
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, "not") + χρῶμα (khrōma, "colour")
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