Meaning

2 senses
  1. (UK)A planar circular chart in which related colours are adjacent, and complementary colors are opposite.

    Farbkreis, Farbrad

  2. A device that emits varying colours of light by the use of a wheel, commonly used to illuminate Christmas trees.

Translations

3 languages
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By meaning 1
a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complementary colours opposite.:

Forms

plural: colour wheels

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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