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Cyan vs Clan - What's the difference?

cyan | clan |

As nouns the difference between cyan and clan

is that cyan is a colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light while clan is a group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.

As an adjective cyan

is of the colour cyan.

cyan

English

(wikipedia cyan)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of the colour cyan.

    • Related terms

    * cyan- * cyano-

    See also

    * ----

    clan

    English

    (wikipedia clan)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
  • A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
  • Any association of people behaving clannishly.
  • (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
  • A badger colony.

    • Derived terms

    * clannish * matriclan * patriclan

    Descendants

    * Dutch: (l) * German: (l)