Daltonic
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of or pertaining to the chemist John Dalton, Daltonian. not-comparable
"1866, John Henry Pepper, The Playbook of Metals: A New Edition, page 150, All our ideas are so interwoven with the Daltonic theory that we cannot transform ourselves into the times when it did not exist."
- 2 Suffering from Daltonism; colour blind, especially red-green colour blind. not-comparable
"Words fail to present the difference between blue and green to the blind or to the daltonic, and, as everyone knows, all the attempts to "translate" music into words invariably awkward, crude, and inadequate."
- 3 Colour blind, especially red-green colour blind. not-comparable
"Using three tests, bridge', 'differences and 'mosaic', can be as rapid as 1 minute per test but a child slightly Daltonic on PIC may give positive results on only two of the three; which two, cannot be predicted."
Example
More examples"1866, John Henry Pepper, The Playbook of Metals: A New Edition, page 150, All our ideas are so interwoven with the Daltonic theory that we cannot transform ourselves into the times when it did not exist."
Etymology
From Dalton + -ic.
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