Contrast vs Polarity - What's the difference?
contrast | polarity |
(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
The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.
Either of the two extremes of such attributes.
(chemistry) The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule.
As nouns the difference between contrast and polarity
is that contrast is (label) a difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable while polarity is the separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.As a verb contrast
is to set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.contrast
English
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(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.