dichromic
adjEtymology From di- + Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”) + -ic.
1
furnishing or giving two colours; said of defective vision, in which all the compound colours are resolvable into two elements instead of three
- Their vision is therefore, in fact, dichromic; all their compound colours are resolvable into two elements only instead of three.1866, Sir J. Herschel, Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects:
2
containing two atoms of chromium
- Derived terms
- dichromic acid
- Related terms
- dichroic