Compansion vs Contrast - What's the difference?
compansion | contrast |
(label) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
#(label) The degree of this difference.
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#(label) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
(label) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
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*:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast : Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
Antithesis.
To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
To form a contrast.
* Lyell
As nouns the difference between compansion and contrast
is that compansion is companding while contrast is (label) a difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.As a verb contrast is
to set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.contrast
English
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Verb
(en verb)- Foreground and background strongly contrast .
- The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.