Magenta

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A purplish red, one of the subtractive primary colors.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A rich and somewhat glaring red pigment. Also called aniline red and fuchsin.
  • noun. The color given by the pigment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsin, fuchsine, roseïne, etc.
  • noun. The purplish-red color of magenta.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A light purple, purplish-red, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.
  • adjective. having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
  • adjective. of deep purplish red
  • noun. a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
  • Word Usage
    "-- creating normalized set, copy values from settable create table normalset (id int not null default 0, val char (8), key (id)); insert into normalset SELECT id, 'cyan' FROM settable WHERE s like '% cyan%'; insert into normalset SELECT id, 'yellow' FROM settable WHERE s like '% yellow%'; insert into normalset SELECT id, 'magenta' FROM settable WHERE s like '% magenta%'; insert into normalset SELECT id, 'black' FROM settable WHERE s like '% black%';"
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