additive (noun)
121methyl cellulose — noun : any of various tasteless gummy substances that are made by methylating cellulose, have the property of swelling in water, and are used chiefly as emulsifiers, adhesives, and thickeners and in medicine as bulk laxatives * * * Chem. a… …
122mosaic screen — noun : a flat transparent light filter composed of minute colored elements through which the exposure is made on a panchromatic emulsion layer and through which the image is viewed in the screen process of additive color photography …
123quantitative inheritance — noun : particulate inheritance of any quantitative character mediated by groups of multiple factors each allelic pair of which adds or subtracts a specific increment of the collectively controlled character (as height or skin color in man) so… …
124screen process — noun 1. : an additive three color process in which a mosaic screen composed of minute color elements distributed either in an irregular fashion (as in the autochrome) or in a regular order (as in the Finlay process) is so placed that the light… …
125separation negative — noun : a monochrome negative obtained by photographing a subject through a filter and used as one of the component negatives in color printing * * * Photog. a black and white negative of one of the additive primary colors used to form a color… …
126strontium titanate — noun : a crystalline compound SrTiO3 used chiefly as an additive to barium titanate ceramic bodies * * * strontium titanate, a crystalline substance almost as brilliant and clear as diamond, made by fusing strontium, titanium, and oxygen, used… …
127subtractive primary — noun : one of a set of colorants comprising red, yellow, and blue or more exactly magenta, yellow, and cyan each of which is capable of absorbing from the spectrum of incident daylight some part that the others would reflect and which are… …
128texture paint — noun : a paint of heavy consistency and coarse grain consisting usually of gypsum and sand with water thinned binder and used for creating a rough patterned effect on a wall * * * a finish paint having an insoluble additive, as sand, for giving a …
