chroma

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The term chromatic derives from the Greek word chroma, meaning color.

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  1. noun The aspect of color in the Munsell color system by which a sample appears to differ from a gray of the same lightness or brightness and that corresponds to saturation of the perceived color.

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  • New Remove Chroma Noise correction: removes all kind of chroma artifacts. —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • Five or ten years ago, chroma-keying was too difficult or expensive for home-video enthusiasts, but now it's pretty common. —  PC Magazine: New Product Reviews
  • Adobe's name for its automatic chroma-key feature. —  PC Magazine: New Product Reviews
  • Professionals usually set up a chroma-key shot by painting an entire wall blue or green so that it fills the frame behind the subject, to simplify the process of merging the shot with its simulated background. —  PC Magazine: New Product Reviews
  • Once done i then open up it tmpgenc xpress and changed the chroma, gamma, lum, contrast, rgb colours and few other things .... —  Mininova
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  1. Greek khrōma, color.

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  1. Latin, from Greek χρῶμα: see chromatic.
 

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