a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
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pigment::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | paint |
| Type of | coating, colour, color, coat, colouring material, coloring material |
| Has types | semigloss, acrylic paint, antifouling paint, coat of paint, distemper, enamel, encaustic, finger paint, fingerpaint, house paint, housepaint, oil paint, acrylic, spray paint, water-base paint |
artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably.
pigment::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | hue |
| Derivation | pigmentation |
pigment::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | color, colouring material, colour, coloring material |
pigment::noun | Spocien Dictionary
Examples of pigment
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Powdered pigment is mixed into the final coat to give color to the finished job.
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Within 24 hours there was a five-fold increase in the production of the pigment.
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The pigment becomes both harder to rub off and harder to get at with the rubber.
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The fish is skinned, boned and rinsed to tone down its taste, smell and pigment.
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Hair gets its color from cells called melanocytes, which produce a dark pigment.
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Its texture is often course and brittle compared with hair with natural pigment.
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Kodak utilizes a proprietary milling process for uniform pigment particle sizes.
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Specialized retinal cells called the retinal pigment epithelium maintain vision.
From the sciencedaily.com
Karempelis uses a state-of-the-art laser that targets the pigment in the tattoo.
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- Dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
- Acquire pigment; become colored or imbued
- Color or dye with a pigment; "pigment a photograph"
- Any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
- Paint: a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating; "artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably"
- (pigmentation) the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings
- A pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which a material emits light.
- Pigment is a 3D scene graph library designed to easily create rich application user interfaces. Pigment uses OpenGL for rendering, and supports OpenGL 1.2 to 2.1 and OpenGL ES-CM 1.1 plugins. ...
- Any color in plant or animal cells; A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder; To add color or pigment to something
