additive color

American

noun

Photography.

red, green, or blue-violet, as used in the additive process of color photography.

Etymology

Origin of additive color

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

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Later in the show children can boogie in front of beams of colored light, and can discover the secrets of additive color mixing if they aren’t too in love with their own multicolored shadows.

From New York Times

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