isochromatic
Americanadjective
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having the same colour
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of uniform colour
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photog (of an early type of emulsion) sensitive to green light in addition to blue light but not to red light
Etymology
Origin of isochromatic
Example Sentences
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Rapid transit and isochromatic photography are beginning to enable the student to make of connoisseurship something like an exact science.
From The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance Third Edition by Bernard Berenson
Good light, correct exposure, isochromatic screen and films; bound to come out right, y’know.
From The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa by Alec Ball
Attempts have been made to produce isochromatic gelatine dry plates which, while many times more sensitive to white light than my chlorophyl plates, shall also show the same relative color-sensitiveness.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various
This prohibition was the more to be regretted because no other commercial isochromatic or orthochromatic plates had or have appeared to possess the same qualities of translation.
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