Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wheel designed to demonstrate the phenomena of color-mixture. See
color-mixer .
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Examples
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Unleash your inner diva at the Havaianas flip-flop bar, where a color-wheel allows weekend shoppers to select their own color combinations and embellishments.
Limelight Marketplace is in shopping spotlight for unique NYC finds 2010
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Such an organism would draw not a triangle-based color-wheel but a tetragonal color-sphere.
The Color Wheel, Part 2 James Gurney 2010
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Essentially, the Brushes application gives the user a full color-wheel spectrum, from which he can choose a specific color.
The Frogs 2009
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Do you have any streetfighting skills, Ginny, or were you just going to color-wheel her into submission?
MORE FROM GINNY BATES -- NO U-HAULS, JUST BORROW A FRIEND'S TRUCK Maggie Jochild 2007
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One drawback of most DLP sets that utilize the spinning color-wheel are the color flashes known as the "rainbow effect," which some viewers perceive and might find annoying.
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One drawback of most DLP sets that utilize the spinning color-wheel are the color flashes known as the "rainbow effect," which some viewers perceive and might find annoying.
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Even where distinct vision would be 'disadvantageous' he half doubts if fusion comes to the rescue, or if even the color-wheel ever produces complete fusion.
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Any form of color-wheel may be used, but preferably one which is driven by electricity or clock-work, so that a fairly constant speed is assured.
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"I have never been able," he writes, "to make gray in a color-wheel from red and green (with the necessary correction of blue), but when it is as nearly gray as it can be got I see both red and green with an appearance of translucence."
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Let Fig. 1 represent the upper portion of a color-wheel, with center at _O_, and with equal sectors _A_ and _B_, in front of which a rod
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