yellowness

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yel·low

(yĕl′ō)

a. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between orange and green, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 570 to 590 nanometers; any of a group of colors of a hue resembling that of ripe lemons and varying in lightness and saturation; one of the subtractive primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.

b. A pigment or dye having this hue.

c. Something that has this hue.

2. Chiefly Southern US The yolk of an egg.

3. Western US Gold. Used formerly by prospectors.

4. yellows Any of various plant diseases characterized by yellow or yellowish discoloration of the leaves and caused by phytoplasmas that are transmitted by insects or by certain viruses.

adj. yel·low·er, yel·low·est

1. Of the color yellow.

a. Having a yellow-brown skin color.

b. Offensive Of or being a person of Asian origin.

3. Slang Cowardly.

tr. & intr.v. yel·lowed, yel·low·ing, yel·lows

To make or become yellow: documents that had been yellowed by age; clouds that yellow in the evening light.

[Middle English yelow, from Old English geolu; see ghel- in Indo-European roots.]

yel′low·ness n.

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Noun

yellowness - yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons

yellow

chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour - a color that has hue

canary yellow, canary - a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge

amber, gold - a deep yellow color; "an amber light illuminated the room"; "he admired the gold of her hair"

brownish yellow - a yellow color of low lightness with a brownish tinge

lemon yellow, maize, gamboge, lemon - a strong yellow color

old gold - a dark yellow

orange yellow, saffron - a shade of yellow tinged with orange

pale yellow, straw, wheat - a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

greenish yellow - a shade of yellow tinged with green

yellowness

noun

Slang. Ignoble lack of courage:

chickenheartedness, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faint-heartedness, funk, pusillanimity, unmanliness.

Slang: gutlessness, yellow streak.

Translations

صُفْرَه، إصْفِرار

žluť

gulhed

gulur litur

gulfarge

žlťžltosť

sarılık

黄色

yellowness

[ˈjeləʊnɪs] N → color m amarillo, amarillez f

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yellowness

no pl → Gelb nt; (of skin) → gelbliche Färbung

(inf, = cowardice) → Feigheit f

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yellow

(ˈjeləu) adjective, noun

(of) the colour of gold, the yolk of an egg etc. a yellow dress; yellow sands; Yellow is my favourite colour.

verb

to make or become yellow. It was autumn and the leaves were beginning to yellow.

ˈyellowness noun

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Notwithstanding the yellowness it was distinguished; he had blue eyes, a nose of an imposing boldness, hooked, aggressive but not clumsy, and a small beard, pointed and gray: he was rather bald, but his hair had evidently been quite fine, curling prettily, and he still wore it long.

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Some considered that he might do more than others "where there was liver;"--at least there would be no harm in getting a few bottles of "stuff" from him, since if these proved useless it would still be possible to return to the Purifying Pills, which kept you alive if they did not remove the yellowness. But these were people of minor importance.

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If the growing conditions are quite favorable, then the skin automatically becomes a little rough, golden, light green color, which later acquires more yellowness.

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'They discovered that a 34-year-old farmer was on admission in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) health facility with symptoms of fever and yellowness of the eyes.

No Cause For Alarm On Yellow Fever Outbreak a Ebonyi Assures Residents

The five signs you should look out for are color and vibrancy fading, shape loss, bobbling, yellowness, and roughness.

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Tansawat et al [20] reported greater redness, lightness, and yellowness in longissimus muscles from grain-fed Bos taurus beef animals than those from pasture-fed counterparts.

Muscle-specific color stability in fresh beef from grain-finished Bos indicus cattle

Optical transmittances and yellowness indices (ASTM D1925) were measured by a UV/VIS spectrophotometer (UV2501PC, Shimadzu, Japan), using neat glass slide as reference.

Highly transparent thermal stable silicone/titania hybrids with high refractive index for LED encapsulation

Color was measured using a Minolta CR-300 colorimeter (diffuse illumination/0[degrees] viewing angle, specular component included) and the CIELAB system ([L.sup.*], lightness; [a.sup.*], redness; and [b.sup.*], yellowness) calibrated to a white standard.

Quality of aged shoulder from lambs fed with different oldman saltbush hay levels (Atriplex nummularia)/ Qualidade da paleta maturada de cordeiros alimentados com diferentes niveis de feno de erva-sal (Atriplex nummularia)

This yellowness can be cancelled out by optical brighteners, a special class of colourant, which absorb UV light from the invisible part of sunlight or artificial light and emit it in the blue region, giving a cleaner transparency or more intense white and sharper colours.

Colour your thinking on the optical properties of thermoplastics

A total of 150 adzuki bean [Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi and Ohashi] genotypes obtained from the genebank of the RDA (Rural Development Administration, Suwon, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea) were classified into groups according to color (using the Hunter color scale; L: lightness (0 = black, 100 = white), a (-a = greenness, +a = redness), b (-b = blueness, +b = yellowness) using by a Minolta Color Difference Meter (Model CR-310, Minolta Co.

Comparison of Tocopherol Contents in Adzuki Bean (Vigna angularis) Genotypes Traits

Color, yellowness index, and opacity measurements of molded PP/MMT nanocomposite plates were obtained with a spectrophotometer Color Guide 45/0 (BYK, Gardner).

Evaluation of the structure of polypropylene/montmorillonite nanocomposite by in-line light extinction and color measurements during multiple extrusions

The color of chicken meat is measured in term of its lightness (L*), redness (a*) and yellowness (b*) (Tomasevic and Rajkovic, 2015).