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monochromatic
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monochromatic, monochroic
1. (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength
2. Physics (of moving particles) having only one kinetic energy
3. of or relating to monochromatism
4. a person who is totally colour-blind

monochromatic [¦män·ə·krə′mad·ik]
(optics)
Pertaining to the color of a surface which radiates light having an extremely small range of wavelengths.
(physics)
Consisting of electromagnetic radiation having an extremely small range of wavelengths, or particles having an extremely small range of energies.


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The multifarious effects of light - richly coloured in the Chapel of St Ignatius (AR August 1997) - are here monochromatically rendered.
The general absence of such coloration in surviving practical sources might suggest that extant later copies of lost sources were monochromatically renotated.
Instead, Campion has turned the usually irrepressible Holly Hunter into something monochromatically dour, even forbidding--a white mask of ungracious chastity.
 
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