Visual Purple

  

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Visual Purple

Definition: Visual Purple

Visual Purple

Noun

1. A red photopigment in the retinal rods of vertebrates; dissociates into retinene by light.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Visual Purple

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Medicine

Rhodopsin:a purplish carotenoid protein in the outer segment of the rod cells of the retina which, on stimulation by light, bleaches and breaks down into transient orange, xanthopsin and finally retinene and opsin. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Visual Purple

Synonyms: retinal purple (n), rhodopsin (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Visual Purple

English words defined with "visual purple": Optogram, OptographyPurpurogenousretinal purpleVisual white, Visual yellow. (references)
Specialty definitions using "visual purple": Edridge-Green theory, Edridge-Green theory of color vision. (references)

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Anagrams: Visual Purple

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-p-p-r-s-u-u-v"

-4 letters: allusive, appliers, perillas, plausive, pluvials, prevails, purlieus, spirulae, supplier.

-5 letters: allures, applier, applies, apprise, appulse, eluvial, euripus, lappers, laurels, lippers, pallier, papules, parvise, paupers, paviser, perilla, perusal, pileups, pillars, pilular, pilules, pleural, pleuras, plurals, pluvial, prepill, prevail, priapus, pullers, pullups, pulpers, pulpier, pupilar, purlieu, purples, rallies, rappels, revisal, ripples, sallier, sappier, slapper.

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Alternative Orthography: Visual Purple


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 69 73 75 61 6C      50 75 72 70 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01101001 01110011 01110101 01100001 01101100 00100000 01010000 01110101 01110010 01110000 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#105 &#115 &#117 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#80 &#117 &#114 &#112 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0069 0073 0075 0061 006C      0050 0075 0072 0070 006C 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5675858767782508784827871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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