Hexachromatic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Hexachromatic is an adjective meaning Able to distinguish six distinct colors.
Meaning
Able to distinguish six distinct colors.
More Meanings
- Having six independent channels or dimensions for characterizing color information.
- Composed of or based on six colors.
- Having six different pitch classes
Example Sentences
Most of us, they assert, are “hexachromatic”. We see red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.
The scale contains 493 separate sensations, which are structurally hexachromatic and visually colourless.
If a subject with normal (trichromatic) color vision wears the glasses in Fig. 8.24, his vision will be hexachromatic (six-color).
I think that some turtles potentially have hexachromatic vision due to different matches between expressed pigment and associated oil droplet!
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include trichromatic, distinguishable, discriminating, colourable, distinct, dyeable.
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