ALL meanings of chrominance
chro·mi·nance
C c - noun chrominance the quality of light that causes the sensation of colour. It is determined by comparison with a reference source of the same brightness and of known chromaticity 3
- noun chrominance the information that defines the colour (hue and saturation) of a television image, but not the brightness 3
- noun chrominance that attribute of light which produces the sensation of color apart from luminance; specif., the color of an object as measured quantitatively in terms of a reference color 3
- noun chrominance the difference in color quality between a color and a reference color that has an equal brightness and a specified chromaticity. 1
- noun chrominance The colorimetric difference between a given color in a television picture and a standard color of equal luminance. 1
- noun chrominance The signal used in video systems to convey the picture's colour information, separately from the accompanying luma signal. 0