Found 3 items, similar to Pigment.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: pigment
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pigment
pigment
n : dry coloring matter (especially an insoluble powder to be
mixed with a liquid to produce paint etc)
v 1: acquire pigment; become colored or imbued
2: color or dye with a pigment;
“pigment a photograph”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pigment
Pigment
\Pig"ment\, n. [L. pigmentum, fr. the root of pingere to
paint: cf. F. pigment. See
Paint, and cf.
Pimento,
Orpiment.]
1. Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may
be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified
coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate
vehicle.
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2. (Physiol.) Any one of the colored substances found in
animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin,
urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.
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3. Wine flavored with species and honey. --Sir W. Scott.
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Pigment cell (Physiol.), a small cell containing coloring
matter, as the pigmented epithelial cells of the choroid
and iris, or the pigmented connective tissue cells in the
skin of fishes, reptiles, etc.
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