"primary color" meaning in All languages combined

See primary color on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: primary colors [plural], primary colour [alternative, UK]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} primary color (plural primary colors)
  1. Any of three colors which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colors Translations (any of three colors which can generate all other colors): color primari [masculine] (Catalan), 原色 (yuánsè) (Chinese Mandarin), 基色 (jīsè) (Chinese Mandarin), pääväri (Finnish), couleur primaire [feminine] (French), cor primaria [feminine] (Galician), Grundfarbe [feminine] (German), Primärfarbe [feminine] (German), βασικό χρώμα (vasikó chróma) [neuter] (Greek), મૂળ રંગ (mūḷ raṅg) (Gujarati), 原色 (genshoku) (alt: げんしょく) (Japanese), 원색 (wonsaek) (Korean), tae mātāmua (Maori), culoare primară [feminine] (Romanian), culoare fundamentală [feminine] (Romanian), color primario [masculine] (Spanish), pangunahing kulay (Tagalog)

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      "sense": "any of three colors which can generate all other colors",
      "word": "tae mātāmua"
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      "sense": "any of three colors which can generate all other colors",
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      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "any of three colors which can generate all other colors",
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      "word": "culoare fundamentală"
    },
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "any of three colors which can generate all other colors",
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      "word": "color primario"
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      "sense": "any of three colors which can generate all other colors",
      "word": "pangunahing kulay"
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