chroma
(ˈkrəʊmə)
[a. Gr. χρῶµα colour.]
Purity or intensity as a colour quality.
| 1889 in Cent. Dict. 1905 A. H. Munsell Color Notation i. 8 Music..defines each sound in terms of its pitch, intensity, and duration... So should color be supplied with an appropriate system, based on the hue, value, and chroma of our sensations. Ibid. 75 Chroma, the degree of departure of a color sensation from that of white or gray; the intensity of distinctive hue; color intensity. 1936 Mind XLV. 303 The terms ‘blue’, ‘green’, and ‘yellow’ are only rough, though practically convenient, references to an indefinite mass of colour-hues, shades and chromas. 1957 R. W. G. Hunt Reprod. Colour viii. 79 In America the Munsell system of colour specification is widely used, and in this system..chroma [is used] instead of Purity. 1959 B.S.I. News Nov. 6/1 The Munsell concepts of lightness, hue and strength (chroma). |