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"A planar circular chart in which related colours are adjacent, and complementary colors are opposite."
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"(British spelling) A planar circular chart in which related colours are adjacent, and complementary colors are opposite."
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"_dis1": "88 12",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complimentary colours opposite.",
"word": "kolorcirklo"
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"_dis1": "88 12",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complimentary colours opposite.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Farbkreis"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complimentary colours opposite.",
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"word": "Farbrad"
},
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complimentary colours opposite.",
"word": "taeāwhio"
},
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"_dis1": "88 12",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complimentary colours opposite.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "rueda del color"
}
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"ref": "2013, Martin Pullen, The Completely Useless Guide to Christmas",
"text": "With fears that draping normal Christmas fairy lights through the tree's aluminium branches would cause a short circuit, the trees were lit from below by a rotating colour wheel divided into wedge-shaped segments of variously coloured plastic.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2013, Robert Jeschonek, Christmas at Glosser's, page 13",
"text": "The twins led him across the room to a silver aluminum Christmas tree in the far corner. A device on the floor cast light on the tree from a bulb behind a slowly turning color wheel.",
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"A device that emits varying colours of light by the use of a wheel, commonly used to illuminate Christmas trees."
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"_dis1": "18 82",
"word": "colour triangle"
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"ref": "2013, Martin Pullen, The Completely Useless Guide to Christmas",
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"ref": "2013, Robert Jeschonek, Christmas at Glosser's, page 13",
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complimentary colours opposite.",
"word": "kolorcirklo"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complimentary colours opposite.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Farbkreis"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complimentary colours opposite.",
"tags": [
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"word": "Farbrad"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complimentary colours opposite.",
"word": "taeāwhio"
},
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "a circular colour chart where related colours are adjacent and complimentary colours opposite.",
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"word": "rueda del color"
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