color circle
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈkʌlər ˈsɜrkl/
- US
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círculo cromático
- Art students often refer to the color circle to understand how primary and secondary colors relate to each other.
Examples
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The researchers repeated the color circle experiment on these children.
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This is the color circle here and one presents the stimuli around the circle and see how the cell responds.
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Here again is the color circle, and here are the prime axes.
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Also, the article implies that between the first two color circles, we English speakers should have a much easier time with the first one.
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I'm puzzled by the color circles because I very clearly see the distinct color on the left side of the circle in all cases.
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The researchers repeated the color circle experiment, but this time threw in a verbal distraction.
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The notion of color circles began in the Middle Ages with limited scales that physicians used to classify urine.
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I'm curious about the implications of seeing the different tile in all of the color circles almost instantly, without any difference between the "western" and "eastern" examples.
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Aatish: I have done a quick and completely useless survey of four individuals who are native English language speakers, and thus far, three out of four see the different color on the left side of the color circles.
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Newton, though, receives less than three pages, and that includes a figure juxtaposing Descartes's tonal and Newton's color circles.
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Synonyms
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2.4
A chart showing many colors to help you choose one
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3.2
A round chart that shows how colors are related and which colors match well
How Complex
- US
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3.6
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3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is transparently compositional: a diagram made of or showing colors arranged in a circular form follows directly from 'color' + 'circle'. This is a common, cross-linguistic concept (often called a 'color wheel') and thus a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the intended diagrammatic meaning.
Etymology
Color circle is a simple picture where different colors are put around a circle, like numbers on a clock. This round layout makes it easy to see which colors sit opposite each other and are 'complementary', so the name means a diagram that shows color relationships.