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ach·ro·mat·ic

(ăk′rə-măt′ĭk, ā′krə-)

adj.

1. Designating color perceived to have zero saturation and therefore no hue, such as neutral grays, white, or black.

2. Refracting light without spectral color separation.

3. Biology Difficult to stain with standard dyes. Used in reference to cells or tissues.

4. Music Having only the diatonic tones of the scale.

[From Greek akhrōmatos : a-, without; see a-¹ + khrōma, khrōmat-, color.]

ach′ro·mat′i·cal·ly adv.

a·chro′ma·tic′i·ty (-tĭs′ĭ-tē) n.

a·chro′ma·tism (ā-krō′mə-tĭz′əm) n.

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However, future studies need to be designed to determine the etiology related to why people see color information achromatically in the procedure for measuring stereopsis.

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Grayscale versions of these fused images (whg and bhg, respectively) were spatially identical to their chromatic counterparts but were rendered achromatically. Single-band JR images were of white-hot polarity.