Definition of Color

color
<spelling> American spelling of colour.
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color
- Variable in class javax.swing.border.MatteBorder 
protected Color color

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- Static variable in class javax.swing.text.html.HTML.Attribute 
public static final HTML.Attribute COLOR

Color(ColorSpace, float[], float)
- Constructor for class java.awt.Color 
public Color (ColorSpace  cspace, float[] components, float alpha)
Creates a color in the color space of the supplied ColorSpace with the color components specified in the float array and the specified alpha. The number of components is determined by the color space type of the ColorSpace (e.g. RGB requires 3 components, CMYK requires 4, etc.).Parameters: cspace - The ColorSpace to be used to interpret the components - An arbitrary number of color components that is compatible with the ColorSpacecomponents - An arbitrary number of color components that is compatible with the ColorSpace - Alpha valuealpha - Alpha valueSee Also:  getComponents(float[]) , getColorComponents(float[])

Color(float, float, float)
- Constructor for class java.awt.Color 
public Color (float r, float g, float b)
Creates an opaque sRGB color with the specified red, green, and blue values in the range (0.0 - 1.0). Alpha is defaulted to 1.0. The actual color used in rendering will depend on finding the best match given the color space available for a given output device.Parameters: r - the red component - the green componentg - the green component - the blue componentb - the blue componentSee Also:  getRed() , getGreen() , getBlue() , getRGB()

Color(float, float, float, float)
- Constructor for class java.awt.Color 
public Color (float r, float g, float b, float a)
Creates an sRGB color with the specified red, green, blue, and alpha values in the range (0.0 - 1.0). The actual color used in rendering will depend on finding the best match given the color space available for a given output device.Parameters: r - the red component - the green componentg - the green component - the blue componentb - the blue component - the alpha componenta - the alpha componentSee Also:  getRed() , getGreen() , getBlue() , getAlpha() , getRGB()

Color(int)
- Constructor for class java.awt.Color 
public Color (int rgb)
Creates an opaque sRGB color with the specified combined RGB value consisting of the red component in bits 16-23, the green component in bits 8-15, and the blue component in bits 0-7. The actual color used in rendering will depend on finding the best match given the color space available for a given output device. Alpha is defaulted to 255.Parameters: rgb - the combined RGB componentsSee Also:  ColorModel.getRGBdefault() , getRed() , getGreen() , getBlue() , getRGB()

Color(int, boolean)
- Constructor for class java.awt.Color 
public Color (int rgba, boolean hasalpha)
Creates an sRGB color with the specified combined RGBA value consisting of the alpha component in bits 24-31, the red component in bits 16-23, the green component in bits 8-15, and the blue component in bits 0-7. If the hasalpha argument is False, alpha is defaulted to 255.Parameters: rgba - the combined RGBA components - true if the alpha bits are valid, false otherwisehasalpha - true if the alpha bits are valid, false otherwiseSee Also:  ColorModel.getRGBdefault() , getRed() , getGreen() , getBlue() , getAlpha() , getRGB()

Color(int, int, int)
- Constructor for class java.awt.Color 
public Color (int r, int g, int b)
Creates an opaque sRGB color with the specified red, green, and blue values in the range (0 - 255). The actual color used in rendering will depend on finding the best match given the color space available for a given output device. Alpha is defaulted to 255.Parameters: r - the red component - the green componentg - the green component - the blue componentb - the blue componentSee Also:  getRed() , getGreen() , getBlue() , getRGB()

Color(int, int, int, int)
- Constructor for class java.awt.Color 
public Color (int r, int g, int b, int a)
Creates an sRGB color with the specified red, green, blue, and alpha values in the range (0 - 255).Parameters: r - the red component - the green componentg - the green component - the blue componentb - the blue component - the alpha componenta - the alpha componentSee Also:  getRed() , getGreen() , getBlue() , getAlpha() , getRGB()

Color
Refers to use of paper other than white and ink other than black. Computer monitors use the RGB color space and most printers use CYMK. Most color problems stem from either poor translation between these color models, limitations in one of the color models (out of gamut colors), or poor color separation. Also common is spot color, in which black ink is supplemented with an additional color. One way of ensuring that color fidelity is maintained across the design and printing process is to use a standardizes set of colors, usually from the Pantone Matching System.

Color
(v. t.)
To hide.
  
(v. t.)
To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.
  
(v. t.)
To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.
  
(v. i.)
To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.
  
(n.)
The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.
  
(n.)
That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
  
(n.)
That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.
  
(n.)
Shade or variety of character; kind; species.
  
(n.)
Any hue distinguished from white or black.
  
(n.)
An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court.
  
(n.)
A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
  
(n.)
A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).
  

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Noun
1. a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
(synonym) colour, coloring, colouring
(antonym) colorlessness, colourlessness, achromatism
(hypernym) visual property
(hyponym) heather mixture, heather
(attribute) colored, coloured, colorful
(derivation) colour, emblazon
2. interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"
(synonym) colour, vividness
(hypernym) interest, interestingness
(attribute) colorful, colourful
3. the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
(synonym) colour, coloration, colouration
(hypernym) timbre, timber, quality, tone
4. a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
(synonym) colour, people of color, people of colour
(hypernym) race
(member-meronym) person of color, person of colour
5. an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "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"
(synonym) semblance, gloss, colour
(hypernym) appearance, visual aspect
(hyponym) color of law, colour of law
6. any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim"
(synonym) coloring material, colouring material, colour
(hypernym) material, stuff
(hyponym) paint
7. (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
(synonym) colour
(hypernym) kind, sort, form, variety
(classification) particle physics, high-energy physics, high energy physics
8. the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
(synonym) colour
(hypernym) appearance, visual aspect

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Verb
1. add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
(synonym) colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
(antonym) discolor
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(hyponym) blackwash
(derivation) coloration, colouration
2. affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
(synonym) tinge, colour, distort
(hypernym) affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
3. modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"
(synonym) colour
(hypernym) influence, act upon, work
4. decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
(synonym) colour, emblazon
(hypernym) decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
(hyponym) miniate
(derivation) colorist
5. gloss or excuse; "color a lie"
(synonym) colour, gloss
(hypernym) apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
6. change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
(synonym) discolor, discolour, colour
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) blush, crimson, flush, redden
(derivation) colour, coloring, colouring

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Adjective
1. having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
(synonym) colour
(antonym) black-and-white, black and white(p)
(classification) photography, picture taking

Colour gang
gang of street youths

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color
\col"or\ (?), n. [written also colour.] [of. color, colur, colour, f. couleur, l. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). see helmet.]
1. a property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
note: the sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. white, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them.
2. any hue distinguished from white or black.
3. the hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. give color to my pale cheek.
4. that which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
5. that which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. they had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. i. 30. that he should die is worthy policy; but yet we want a color for his death.
6. shade or variety of character; kind; species. boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color.
7. a distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey). in the united states each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental.
8. (law) an apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court.
note: color is express when it is averred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading.

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 straw color 
 three-color 
 liver color 
 red-gree color blindness 
 yellow-blue color blindness 
 secondary color 
 accidental color 
 lead color 
 damask color 
 flame color 
 tempering color 
 color vision 
 vat color 
 substantive color 
 of color 
 lenten color 
 color spectrum 
 oil color 
 isabella color 
 tone color 
 body color 
 isabel color 
 in color 
 parti-color 
 poster color 
 to be off color 
 peach color 
 rose color 
 water color 
 dead color 
 local color 
 tertiary color 
 ring of color 
 off-color 
 adjective color 
 express color 
 solid color 

colour
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Color
A wrong committed by an officer under the pretended authority of his office; in some cases the act amounts to a misdemeanor, and the party may then be indicted. In other cases, the remedy to redress the wrong is by an action. For example Section 1983, et sec. civil rights actions often include allegations that the defendants were acting under color of state law.

Pleading. It is of two kinds, namely, express color and implied color.

Express Color. This is defined to be a feigned matter, pleaded by the defendant, in an action of trespass, from which the plaintiff seems to have a good cause of action, whereas he has in truth only an appearance or color of cause. The practice of giving express color in pleas, obtained in the mixed actions of assize, the writ of entry in the nature of assize, as well as in the personal action of trespass.

It is a general rule in pleading that no man shall be allowed to plead specially such plea as amounts to the general issue, or a total denial of the charges contained in the declaration and must in such cases plead the general issue in terms by which the whole question is referred to the jury; yet, if the defendant in an action of trespass be desirous to refer the validity of his title to the court, rather than to the jury, he may in his plea stated his title specially, by expressly giving color of title to the plaintiff, or supposing him to have an appearance of title had indeed in point of law, but of which the jury are not competent judges.

Suppose, for example, that the plaintiff was in wrongful possession of the close, without any further appearance of title than the possession itself, at the time of the trespass alleged, and that the defendants entered upon him in assertion of their title; but being unable to set forth this title in the pleading in consequence of the objection that would arise for want of color, are driven to plead the general issue of not guilty.

By this plea an issue is produced whether the defendants are guilty or not of the trespass; but upon the trial of the issue, it will be found that the question turns entirely upon a construction of law. The defendants say they are not guilty of the trespasses because they are not guilty of breaking the close of the plaintiff as alleged in the declaration; and that they are not guilty of breaking the close of the plaintiff because they themselves had the property in that close; and their title is this; that the father of one of the defendants being seised of the close in fee, gave it in tail to his eldest son, remainder in tail to one of the defendants; the eldest son was disseised, but made continual claim till the death of the disseisor; after whose death, the descent being cast upon the heir, the disseisee entered upon the heir and afterwards died, when the remainder took effect in the said defendant who demised to the other defendant.

Now, this title involves a legal question; namely, whether continual claim will no preserve the right of entry in the disseisee, notwithstanding a descent cast on the heir of the disseisor. The issue however is merely not guilty, and this is triable by jury; and the effect, therefore, would be that a jury would have to decide this question of law, subject to the direction upon it which they would receive from the court. But let it be supposed that the defendants, in a view to the more satisfactory decision of the question, wish to bring it under the consideration of the court in bank rather than have it referred to a jury. If they have any means of setting forth their title specially in the plea the object will be attained; for then the plaintiff, if disposed to question the sufficiently of the title, may demur to the plea and thus refer the question to the decision of the judges. But such plea if pleaded simply, according to the state of the fact, would be informal for want of color and hence arises a difficulty.

The pleaders of former days contrived to overcome this difficulty in the following singular manner. In such case as that supposed, the plea wanting implied color, they gave in lieu of it an express one by inserting a fictitious allegation of some colorable title in the plaintiff which they at the same time avoided by the preferable title of the defendant.

Formerly various suggestions of apparent right might be adopted according to the fancy of the pleader; and though the same latitude is, perhaps, still available, yet, in practice it is unusual to resort to any except certain known fictions which long usage has applied to the particular case. E.g., in trespass to land, the color universally given is that of a defective charter of the demise.

Implied Color. That in pleading which admits by implication, an apparent right in the opposite party, and avoids it by pleading some new matter by which that apparent right is defeated.

It is a rule that every pleading by way of confession and avoidance must give color; that is, it must admit an apparent right in the opposite party and therefore rely on some new matter by which that apparent right is defeated. For example, where the defendant pleads a release to an action for breach of covenant the tendency of the plea is to admit an apparent right in the plaintiff, namely that the defendant did, as alleged in the declaration, execute the deed and break the covenant therein contained and would therefore, prima facie, be liable on that ground; but shows new matter not before disclosed by which that apparent right is done away, namely that the plaintiff executed to him a release.

Again, if the plaintiff reply that such release was obtained by duress in his replication, he impliedly admits that the defendant has, prima facie, a good defence, namely that such release was executed as alleged in the plea; and that the defefadant therefore would be discharged; but relies on new matter by which the plea is avoided, namely that the release was obtained by duress. Therefore, the plea in this case gives color to the declaration, and the replication to the plea. But let it be supposed that the plaintiff has replied that the release was executed by him, but to another person and not to the defendant; this would be an informal replication wanting color because, if the release were not to the defendant there would not exist even an apparent defence requiring the allegation of new matter to avoid it, and the plea might be sufficiently answered by a traverse denying that the deed stated in the plea is the deed of the plaintiff.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.

color
N M
color; pigment; shade/tinge; complexion; outward appearance/show; excuse/pretext
colorabilis| colorabilis| colorabile ADJ
chromatic; (?) (divided tetrachord into 2 intervals of 1 semitone and 1 of 3)

color
color, luster.

COLOR
May be a variable that may cause one stamp to look different from another stamp with technically the same color. In some cases, different shades may have vastly different catalog values.

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color, theories of
Theories of color make proposals about the nature of the colors that we attribute to physical objects in visual perception. The most common proposals are that these colors are mental properties of perceptual states (subjectivism), they are physical properties of physical objects (physicalism), or they are dispositions of physical objects to produce perceptual states of color (dispositionalism). See theories of color perception .
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Color
Color From darkness comes white light; from white light comes color. These correspond to the unmanifest Logos, the manifest Logos, and the seven rays, and this cosmogonical scheme is repeated throughout the universe.
White light is in the physical world resolvable into a spectrum or band of colors, and color is defined as a quality of visual perception depending on the wavelength of light. But according to theosophy we could see no color at all unless we had it in our mind from the first, and thus recognized the color outside because of its identity with what is within us. Still less could we resolve the continuous band into seven colors, as even infants can do. The physical stimuli merely evokes what is already in us, the latter recognizing what is objective outside us, causing a phenomenon of cognition to pass along the plane of the physical senses. This becomes more evident when we remember that color sense is relative, depending largely on contrast. Colors are light or sight in its septenary aspect; and color, sight, and light are used almost interchangeably in speaking of the evolution of the senses and their corresponding planes of prakriti.
Colors and sounds have great potency in practical magic, as cosmic powers can be evoked by an understanding use of the proper colors and sounds. The seven colors correspond with other septenates, such as the notes of the musical octave, the sacred planets, and the seven primary elements. It is the universal septenate viewed from a visual aspect as manifested light.
Colors are one of the manifold manifestations of cosmic vitality, a septenary unity -- or a denary or duodenary unity, according to the manner of enumeration -- these cosmic forces are interchangeable, their incomprehensible aggregate being cosmic life; therefore, any form of this cosmic life has not only its particular keynote of sound, but likewise its particular keynote of color, etc.

Color in Minerals
Definition
The recognition of colors in minerals goes back to our pre-historic ancestors who used charcoal and iron oxides to color cave paintings which still retain their original intensity.
Idiochromatic minerals are "self colored" due to their composition. The color is a constant and predictable component of the mineral. Examples are blue Azurite, red Cinnabar, and green Malachite.
Allochromatic minerals are "other colored" due to trace impurities in their composition or defects in their structure. In this case, the color is a variable and unpredictable property of the mineral. Examples are the blue in Amazonite (orthoclase), yellow in Heliodor (spodumene) and the rose in rose quartz.
Pseudochromatic minerals are "false colored" due to tricks in light diffraction. In these cases, color is variable but a unique property of the mineral. Examples are the colors produced by precious opal and the shiller reflections of labradorite.
 Table of mineral colors linked to mineral lists.

Color
In heraldic terms, as distinct from the metals.
Green = Vert
Gules = Red
Azure = Blue
Purpur = Purple

Erythrophobia
Fear of red

Leukophobia
Fear of the color white

Melanophobia
Fear of the color black

Porphyrophobia
Fear of the color purple

Xanthophobia
Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow

hromophobia
Fear of colours
Also known as Chromatophobia

Color/Colour
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COLOR
(1) Measured in units that relate to a standard. A yellow-brown natural color is associated with lakes or rivers receiving wetland drainage. The average color value for Wisconsin lakes is 39 units, with the color of state lakes ranging from zero to 320 units. Color also affects light penetration and therefore the depth at which plants can grow. (2) One control of light transmission through water. High color values in many lakes result from the decomposition of vegetation, which gives the water a brown, tea-like color. Determined by a comparison with standardized colored-glass discs and reported in platinum-cobalt (Pt-Co) units.

COLOR (OF LAKE WATERS)
An effect of light penetration, radiation absorption and reflection.  Related to: transparency and depth of water;type of lake bottom and matter held in solution; suspension or floating. Blues and greens are commonly observed in clear water lakes with clean bottoms of sand, rock or marl. Often, the blue tints are in deeper water and greens in shallower sections. Greens are often due to large populations of blue green and green algae in suspension or on the lake bottom. Yellows may be due to certain species of algae and to diatoms in large populations, and in certain types of lakes yellows have been attributed to sulfur bacteria. Pale yellows, yellow brown and coffee color or "black," can be produced by large quantities of dissolved humic substances and by particulate organic matter in suspension. Reds may be a reflection of the pigment color of certain algae; and may be caused by the presence of certain micro-crustaceans and other zooplankton; the "blood lakes" of central Europe are attributed to the presence of the microorganism Euglena sanguinea. Lake waters may be variously colored by suspended particulate inorganic matter especially that which is clayey or colloidal in nature. Some glacial lakes may be milky because of "glacial flour" in suspension, and the shallow water of marl lakes is often milky. Some colors are reflections of yellow sands on shallow bottoms, or from the black of organic sediments; or the blue of the sky. Colors vary with the weather, the time of day and the season. The words white and black have been used to describe lake waters. White has been applied where the water is merely colorless, and sometimes where it is milky from grey or white particulate matter in suspension. Black may be due to: large amounts of humic matter in solution, such as that in water flowing from some kinds of bogs; reflection of black bottoms; the dull appearance of some waters when the sky is heavily overcast. Unusual colors may be produced by pollution from industrial wastes.

Coloring
Most blended and Vatted whiskies are colored with spirit caramel, before being bottled, to maintain consistent color from one bottling to another.
Generally the Single Malts are non colored and their natural color, after the maturation, can be defined like: Amber, Bronze, Gold, Pale, Mahogany, Dark, Pale, etc.
The Scotch whisky is colorless during and after the distillation, but obtains some color from the barrels in which it is matured.

Color
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