color filter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of color filter
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Mounting the metalens on a tripod with a color filter and camera sensor, Park and the team took to the roof of Harvard's Science Center.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024
My vision and wrist size aren’t things I can control, but it’s almost comical how much of a difference high-contrast fonts and adding a color filter made.
From The Verge ● Aug. 18, 2022
Traditional OLEDs emit light through a color filter, but QD-OLED beams blue light through quantum dots to create red and green and produce the rest of the color spectrum.
From The Verge ● Jan. 18, 2022
No "screen" or "color filter"* was needed on camera or projector.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He went outside, the dome on a sight-seeing trip and made the mistake of looking at a marspoppy without an antihypnotic color filter.
From Shock Absorber by Dongen, H. R. van
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