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Definition: Monochrome |
MonochromeAdjective1. Having or appearing to have only one color. Noun1. Painting done in a range of tones of a single color. 2. A black-and-white photograph or slide. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "monochrome" was first used: 1662. (references) |
Etymology: Monochrome \Mon"o*chrome\, noun. [Greek expression of one color; single color: compare to the French expression monochrome.]. (references) |
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Computing | Monochrome |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Something which is monochromatic has a single color. In physics, the word is used more specifically to refer to a electromagnetic radiation of a single wavelength. A monochrome computer display is capable of displaying only a single color, often green or white.The word monochromatic comes from the two Greek words mono (meaning "one"), and chroma (χρωμα, meaning "surface" or "the colour of the skin").
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Monochrome."
Synonyms: MonochromeSynonyms: monochromatic (adj), monochromic (adj), monochromous (adj), black and white (n). (additional references) |
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Painting | Monochrome, polychrome; grisaille. |
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Crosswords: Monochrome |
| English words defined with "monochrome": Camaieu, Chiaro-oscuro, chiaroscuro ♦ Monochromy ♦ wash, wash drawing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "monochrome": bitonal image ♦ device independent bitmap ♦ grey-scale ♦ PHOTOENGRAVING FINISHER, plate finisher, photoengraving ♦ RGB ♦ video memory ♦ Xcoral. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "monochrome": monochromatic. (references) |
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| "Regensburg cathedral 1" by Michael Roehrl Commentary: "Shot near the cathedral in Regensburg with a monochrome film." |
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Business | The inkjet market saw the complete disappearance of monochrome printers, entry of a new brand (Apollo), a fiercely competitive scenario, unprecedented aggression from almost all vendors, and a virtual flood of new models. (references) | |
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| "Monochrome" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 84.31% of the time. "Monochrome" is used about 102 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 84.31% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.69% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Total | 100.00% | 102 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "monochrome"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pikturë njëngjyrëshe. (various references) | |
Arabic | صورة أحادية اللون. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рисуване с един цвят, едноцветна рисунка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 单色 (monochromatic, self-colored, self-coloured). (various references) | |
Czech | monochróm, jednobarevná kresba. (various references) | |
Danish | monokrom. (various references) | |
Dutch | monochroom, eenkleurige afbeelding, eenkleurig. (various references) | |
French | monochrome, camaïeu. (various references) | |
German | monochrom (monochromatic), einfarbig (all one color, monochromic, monochromical, plain, unichrome, unicoloured). (various references) | |
Greek | μονόχρωμοσ (monochromatic, plain, self-colored, self-coloured), μονόχρωμος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | monokróm (monochromatic), egyszínû (monochromatic, monotone, of one color, of one colour, self-colored, self-coloured, whole-colored, whole-coloured), egyszínű festmény (monochrom), egyszínű (monochrom, monochromatic, solid-colour). (various references) | |
Indonesian | satu warna. (various references) | |
Italian | monocromo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | モノカルボン酸 (dag coating containing molybdenum, mobile, mohair, Mohawk, Mohawk haircut, molybdenum, moment, momism, monaural, monaural record, monocarboxylic acid, monoclonal, mono-fluorine, monogram, monograph, monographie, monolock, monologue, monomania, monomaniac, monomer, monopolize, monopoly, monorail, monosexual, monotone, monotype, moped, moral hazard, moral majority, moral pollution, moral risk, moral sense, moral support, morale, morale survey, moralist, morality, moratorium, Morris dance, person fond of using a mobile phone, unisex). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | モノクローム , モノクロ . (various references) | |
Korean | 단색지도. (various references) | |
Manx | undaah. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onochromemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | monocromo, monocromia, monocromático (monochromatic), monicrômico, desenho de uma só cor, com uma só cor. (various references) | |
Romanian | monocromie, monocrom (monochromatic, monochromic). (various references) | |
Russian | монохромный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | jednobojna slika. (various references) | |
Spanish | monocromo (monochromatic). (various references) | |
Swedish | svartvit. (various references) | |
Turkish | tek renkli resim. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | однобарвне зображення, монохромний. (various references) | |
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| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | monochromos. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "monochrome": monochromes. (additional references) | |
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"Monochrome" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Minichrom, Monachorum, monochromed, monocrome, Monostroma, monotreme, monotrope, ommochrome, onochromed. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "monochrome" (pronounced mÄ"nukrō'm) |
| 4 | -k r ō' m | polychrome. |
| 3 | -r ō' m | aerodrome, Hippodrome, syndrome. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-m-m-n-o-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: comonomer. | |
-2 letters: commoner, homeroom. | |
-3 letters: hormone, monomer, moocher, moorhen. | |
-4 letters: chrome, chromo, common, ochone. | |
-5 letters: chemo, chore, comer, cooer, crone, croon, enorm, heron, homer, honer, honor, mooch, moron, ocher, ochre, recon, romeo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-m-m-n-o-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: monochromes. | |
+3 letters: monomorphemic. | |
+5 letters: morphophonemics. | |
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