chrominance

chro·mi·nance

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [kroh-muh-nuh ns]
- /ˈkroʊ mə nəns/
- /ˈkromə.nəns/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [kroh-muh-nuh ns]
- /ˈkroʊ mə nəns/

Definitions of chrominance word

noun chrominance the quality of light that causes the sensation of colour. It is determined by comparison with a reference source of the same brightness and of known chromaticity 3
noun chrominance the information that defines the colour (hue and saturation) of a television image, but not the brightness 3
noun chrominance that attribute of light which produces the sensation of color apart from luminance; specif., the color of an object as measured quantitatively in terms of a reference color 3
noun chrominance the difference in color quality between a color and a reference color that has an equal brightness and a specified chromaticity. 1
noun chrominance The colorimetric difference between a given color in a television picture and a standard color of equal luminance. 1
noun chrominance The signal used in video systems to convey the picture's colour information, separately from the accompanying luma signal. 0

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Origin of chrominance

First appearance:

before 1950

One of the 5% newest English words

First recorded in 1950-55; chrom- + (lum)inance

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Parts of speech for Chrominance

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Chrominance

chrominance popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 55% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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