Dichromic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    furnishing or giving two colours; said of defective vision, in which all the compound colours are resolvable into two elements instead of three not-comparable

    "Their vision is therefore, in fact, dichromic; all their compound colours are resolvable into two elements only instead of three."

  2. 2
    containing two atoms of chromium not-comparable

Example

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"Their vision is therefore, in fact, dichromic; all their compound colours are resolvable into two elements only instead of three."

Etymology

From di- + Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”) + -ic.

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dichromic acid

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