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primary colour

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English

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primary color

Alternative forms

primary color (US)

Noun

primary colour (plural primary colours)

(British spelling) Any of three colours which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colours
Red, blue and green are additive primary colours.

Magenta, yellow and cyan are subtractive primary colours.

Coordinate terms

Translations

any of three colours which can generate all other colours

Catalan: color primari m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 原色 (zh) (yuánsè), 基色 (jīsè)
Finnish: pääväri (fi)
French: couleur primaire (fr) f
Galician: cor primaria f
German: Grundfarbe (de) f, Primärfarbe (de) f
Greek: βασικό χρώμα n (vasikó chróma)
Gujarati: મૂળ રંગ (mūḷ raṅg)
Japanese: 原色 (ja) (げんしょく, genshoku)
Korean: 원색 (ko) (wonsaek)
Maori: tae mātāmua
Romanian: culoare primară f, culoare fundamentală (ro) f
Spanish: color primario m
Tagalog: pangunahing kulay

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