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achromatic
adjective
- colorless
- refracting white light without breaking it up into its component colors
- forming visual images whose outline is free from prismatic colors: an achromatic lens
- Biol.
- staining poorly with the usual stains
- made of achromatin
- Music without accidentals; diatonic: an achromatic scale
Related Forms:
- achromatically adverb
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