"color temperature" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: color temperatures [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} color temperature (countable and uncountable, plural color temperatures)
  1. (physics) A property of a light source: the temperature of an ideal black body radiator that radiates light of a color comparable to that of the light source. Wikipedia link: color temperature Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Physics Synonyms: colour temperature Derived forms: correlated color temperature, correlated colour temperature Translations (in physics): 色溫 (Chinese Cantonese), 色温 (sik¹ wan¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 色溫 (Chinese Mandarin), 色温 (sèwēn) (Chinese Mandarin), värilämpötila (Finnish), színhőmérséklet (Hungarian)

Inflected forms

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