monochrome

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Related topics: Colours

1 CCin shades of only one colour, especially shades of grey 单色的〔尤指灰色〕

We looked out over the grey, monochrome landscape.

我们向外面那一片灰蒙蒙的大地望去。

2 CCa monochrome picture or screen uses only the colours black, white, and grey 〔图片、屏幕等〕黑白的 OPP colour

a monochrome computer monitor

黑白电脑显示屏

—monochromatic /ˌmɒnəkrəˈmætɪk◂ $ ˌmɑː-/ adjectiveadj

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monochrome• McCullin still prefers to shoot in monochrome.• The brilliance of its colours turned the remembered garden outside into monochrome.• The text is accompanied by an abundance of superb photographs, colour as well as monochrome.• a monochrome color scheme for the room• It's monochrome from now on, friend.• DeskScan/UX allows scanning, viewing, manipulating for scale, contrast and brightness, storing and printing high-resolution colour and monochrome images.• Output TableCurve output options include printing the curve-fit graphs and the data summaries in a high quality monochrome mode.• Thurston has made a career in the art world out of sleek, minimal, monochrome paintings.• There were some beautiful monochrome pictures of Yosemite.

Origin monochrome

(1600-1700) Medieval Latin monochroma, from Greek, from mono- ( → MONO-) + chroma “color”

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