color mixer

noun

: an apparatus for color mixture
especially : a wheel provided with concentric colored disks slit along a radius and dovetailed so as to reveal differently colored sectors which when whirled rapidly blend into a circle of uniform color

Word History

First Known Use

1774, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of color mixer was in 1774

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“Color mixer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/color%20mixer. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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