chroma

[′krō·mə]

(optics)

The dimension of the Munsell system of color that corresponds most closely to saturation, which is the degree of vividness of a hue. Also known as Munsell chroma.

color saturation

Chroma

The attribute of a color that allows the observer to judge how much color it contains.

chroma

Short for "chrominance" or color information, which includes its hue (color) and saturation (shade/brightness). Chroma is not a term most people hear or see very often, but it is not entirely hidden (see caption below). See hue and saturation.

Chroma Setting on the Apple TV

The video in this Apple TV media hub is currently set to 4:2:0, which means the color signals are sampled at half the resolution of the brightness (see chroma subsampling). See Apple TV and digital media hub.

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