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primary colour

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Colours, Visual
ˌprimary ˈcolour noun [countable]  CCone of the three colours red, yellow, and blue, which you can mix together to make any of the other colours 原色,基色〔指红、黄、蓝三色〕
Examples from the Corpus
primary colourEight bit-planes per memory bank allows 256 levels of the associated primary colour to be represented.This type of pattern is usually white with each smaller diamond in the same bright primary colour.
ˌprimary ˈcolour nounChineseSyllable
three red, which Corpus yellow, and the blue, of one colours


primary colour
ˌprimary ˈcolour noun [countable]
one of the three colours red, yellow, and blue, which you can mix together to make any of the other colours


primary colourBrE /ˌpraɪməri ˈkʌlə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˌpraɪmeri ˈkʌlər/ 🔊 (especially US ˌprimary ˈcolor) nounone of the three colours, red, yellow and blue, that can be mixed together to make all other colours 原色,基色(指能混合成其他各种颜色的红、黄、蓝三色之一)