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Hue vs Saturation - What's the difference?

hue | saturation |

As a verb hue

is .

As a noun saturation is

the act of saturating or the process of being saturated.

hue

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hewe, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.
  • A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
  • * 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
    • A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
  • The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
    • In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.
  • (figuratively) A character; aspect.
    • Derived terms
    * hued

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hu, a hunting cry.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A shout or cry.
    • Derived terms
    * hue and cry

    Anagrams

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    saturation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia saturation) (en-noun)
  • the act of saturating or the process of being saturated
  • (physics) the condition in which, after a sufficient increase in a causal force, no further increase in the resultant effect is possible; e.g. the state of a ferromagnetic material that cannot be further magnetized
  • (chemistry) the state of a saturated solution
  • (chemistry) the state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds
  • (meteorology) the state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity
  • (art) the intensity or vividness of a colour
  • intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it
  • the flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold
  • (music) an effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music
  • The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
  • The point at which the output of a linear device, such as a linear amplifier, deviates significantly from being a linear function of the input when the input signal is increased.
    • Modulation often requires that amplifiers operate below saturation .

    Anagrams

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