colour wheel en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
- (UK) A planar circular chart in which related colours are adjacent, and complementary colors are opposite.
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A device that emits varying colours of light by the use of a wheel, commonly used to illuminate Christmas trees.
With fears that draping normal Christmas fairy lights through the tree's aluminium branches would cause a short circuit, the trees were lit from below by a rotating colour wheel divided into wedge-shaped segments of variously coloured plastic.
2013, Martin Pullen, The Completely Useless Guide to Christmas:The twins led him across the room to a silver aluminum Christmas tree in the far corner. A device on the floor cast light on the tree from a bulb behind a slowly turning color wheel.
2013, Robert Jeschonek, Christmas at Glosser's, page 13:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| color wheel | US, alternative | lexicographic | |
| colour wheels | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (10)
ka ფერთა წრე (a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complementary colours opposite.) · de Farbrad (a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complementary colours opposite.) · de Farbkreis (a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complementary colours opposite.) · pl koło barw (a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complementary colours opposite.) · ka ფერების წრე (a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complementary colours opposite.) · es rueda del color (a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complementary colours opposite.) · eo kolorcirklo (a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complementary colours opposite.) · ka ფერების ბორბალი (a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complementary colours opposite.) · mi taeāwhio (a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complementary colours opposite.) · ka ფერთა ბორბალი (a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complementary colours opposite.)