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COLOUR CONSTANCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does colour constancy mean?
• COLOUR CONSTANCY (noun)
The noun COLOUR CONSTANCY has 1 sense:
1. the tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions
Familiarity information: COLOUR CONSTANCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
color constancy; colour constancy
Hypernyms ("colour constancy" is a kind of...):
constancy; perceptual constancy ((psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation)
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