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Recent Examples of trichromatic
But their gray world is rich in attributes that might otherwise pale in our trichromatic, million-color world.
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Kanya Kanchana, Longreads, 15 Oct. 2024
Helmholtz’s theory was that our vision was trichromatic, based on three fundamental colors: red, green, and blue, which can be combined to make any other color.
—The Lost Women Of Science Initiative, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2023
Like most primates, humans are trichromatic—that is, our eyes have three types of color-sensitive receptors or cones: blue, green, and red.
—Virginia Morell, National Geographic, 15 June 2020
About 30 million years ago, one of our primate ancestors’ cones split into two — red- and green-detecting — which, together with the existing blue-detecting cone, give us trichromatic vision.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2016
Kanya Kanchana, Longreads, 15 Oct. 2024
Helmholtz’s theory was that our vision was trichromatic, based on three fundamental colors: red, green, and blue, which can be combined to make any other color.
—The Lost Women Of Science Initiative, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2023
Like most primates, humans are trichromatic—that is, our eyes have three types of color-sensitive receptors or cones: blue, green, and red.
—Virginia Morell, National Geographic, 15 June 2020
About 30 million years ago, one of our primate ancestors’ cones split into two — red- and green-detecting — which, together with the existing blue-detecting cone, give us trichromatic vision.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trichromatic
Adjective
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In Caroline Absher’s colossal, mostly-dichromatic self-portrait Studio, the artist looks down at the viewer, who crouches or sits beneath her.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
6 May 2022
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Álvaro's subjects were 32 trichromats (a mix of men and women) and 32 dichromatic men (a mix of the green-lacking and red-lacking subtypes).—
Elizabeth Preston,
Discover Magazine,
15 July 2015
Adjective
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Even pubs remained closed on March 17 until 1961. Since 1922, when 26 of the 32 counties of Ireland became semi-independent, the tricolor flag of Ireland has been the official flag.—
Bryan McGovern,
The Conversation,
11 Mar. 2025
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The honeycomb court and the tricolor purple-teal-gray scheme are smooth on the eyes.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Trichromatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trichromatic. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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