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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having or appearing to have only one color.
  2. adj. Of or composed of radiation of only one wavelength: monochromatic light.
  3. adj. Done in monochrome: monochromatic prints and paintings.
  4. adj. Of or exhibiting monochromatism.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Consisting of light of one wave-length, and in that sense of one color only, as the light produced by a Bunsen flame in which sodium is being volatilized. The light of the flame is almost entirely that due to the two sodium lines, the colors of which are barely distinguishable from one another, and the consequence is that objects viewed by this light are all yellow, and differ only in form and illumination. A monochromatic light gives a single bright line when viewed with the spectroscope.
  2. In psychology, pertaining to or characterized by monochromasy: as, monochromatic vision.
  3. Having an affinity for only one dye at a time, in contradistinction to polychromatic.
  4. n. Same as monochromate, 2.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having only one color, represented by differing hues and tints. For example shades in a black and white television.
  2. adj. Perceptive of only one color; unable to distinguish colors; total color blindness.
  3. adj. figuratively Plain, dull, lifeless.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength
  2. adj. having or appearing to have only one color
  3. adj. of or relating to monochromatism

Etymologies

  1. From mono- +‎ chromatic, mono- from Ancient Greek μόνος (monos, "alone, only, sole, single"), chromatic from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khroma, "color"). (Wiktionary)

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