What is the meaning of colours?

noun

  • Any material used for its color.
    • usage: "she used a different color for the trim"
  • A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks.
  • Physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction. (
    • usage: "each flavor of quarks comes in three colors"
  • Interest and variety and intensity.
    • usage: "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
  • The timbre of a musical sound.
    • usage: "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
  • A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect.
    • usage: "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
  • An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading.
    • usage: "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color"
  • The appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness. and saturation)
  • A distinguishing emblem.
    • usage: "his tie proclaimed his school colors"
  • A flag that shows its nationality.

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APAWordNet. (2010). colours. Retrieved September 21, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/colours/definitions/1266588
ChicagoWordNet. 2010. "colours" http://smartdefine.org/colours/definitions/1266588 (accessed September 21, 2026).
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MLAWordNet. "colours" 23 October 2010. Web. 21 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/colours/definitions/1266588>