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Found 1 definition: achromatic.

Pos: Adjective

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Adjective achromatic has 1 senses

achromatic(a = adj.all) neutral - having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white"
Antonym: chromatic
Derived form verb achromatize₁

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

achromatic, a. [Gr. colorless; 'a priv. + , , color: cf. F. achromatique.].

1. Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors. [1913 Webster]

2. Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue. [1913 Webster]

Achromatic lens (Opt.), a lens composed usually of two separate lenses, a convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by other, and light emerges from the compound lens undecomposed. -- Achromatic prism. See Prism. -- Achromatic telescope, or microscope, one in which the chromatic aberration is corrected, usually by means of a compound or achromatic object glass, and which gives images free from extraneous color.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

achromatic, adj. Optics 1 that transmitts light without separating it into constituent colours (achromatic lens).
2 without colour (achromatic fringe).

Derivative:
achromatically adv. achromaticity n. achromatism n.

Etymology:
F achromatique f. Gk akhromatos (as A-(1), CHROMATIC)

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Achromatism

N achromatism, decoloration, discoloration, pallor, pallidness, pallidity, paleness, etiolation, neutral tint, monochrome, black and white, uncolored &c (color), colorless, achromatic, aplanatic, etiolate, etiolated, hueless, pale, pallid, palefaced, tallow-faced, faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster, discolored, light-colored, fair, blond, white, pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.