dichromat
- noun
- /ˈdaɪkroʊmæt/
- Specialized
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dicromata
- A dichromat perceives the world differently than a person with normal color vision.
They found that the dichromats had an outsized influence on the final ways that the whole space of colors was carved up and and labels attached.
- They found that the dichromats had an outsized influence on the final ways that the whole space of colors was carved up and and labels attached.
Examples
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People who are dichromats typically have difficulty recognizing certain shades.
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I'm too lazy to check this late in the day, but I seem to remember recent blogging on a paper where they made rats go from IIRC dichromats to trichromats by adding a gene for a new pigment.
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This is generally because of a genetic mutation resulting in someone being a dichromat.
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They found that the dichromats had an outsized influence on the final ways that the whole space of colors was carved up and and labels attached.
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Many dichromats cannot distinguish between red and green colors.
Synonyms
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A person who cannot tell some colors apart
Antonyms
- Specialized
A person or animal with normal color vision who has three kinds of color cells in the eye
Compounds
- Specialized
A person who sees colors normally with one eye but is color blind in the other
How Colorful
Surface Forms
Morphology
dichromat = di + chrom + at
The formation is regular for technical terms (di- 'two' + chrom- 'color' + -at agentive), but the components are combining forms rather than standalone English words, so a general B1 learner may not reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Dichromat comes from Greek parts di- ('two') and chroma ('color'), and you can see chroma in the word monochrome ('one color'). So a dichromat is someone who, because of color blindness, sees only two main colors instead of the usual three.