ALL meanings of palette
pal·ette
P p - abbreviation Technical meaning of PALETTE colour palette 3
- noun palette a thin and usually oval or oblong board or tablet with a thumb hole at one end, used by painters for holding and mixing colors. 1
- noun palette any other flat surface used by a painter for this purpose. 1
- noun palette the set of colors on such a board or surface. 1
- noun palette the range of colors used by a particular artist. 1
- noun palette the variety of techniques or range of any art: a lush but uneven musical palette. 1
- noun palette the complete range of colors made available by a computer graphics card, from which a user or program may choose those to be displayed. 1
- noun palette (in ancient Egyptian art) a somewhat flattish slate object of various shapes, carved with commemorative scenes or motifs or, especially in the smaller pieces, containing a recessed area probably for holding eye makeup and often used as a votive offering. 1
- noun palette Also, pallette. Armor. a small plate defending the front of the armpit when the arm is lifted; gusset. 1
- noun Definition of palette in Technology (graphics, hardware) (colour look-up table, CLUT) A device which converts the logical colour numbers stored in each pixel of video memory into physical colours, normally represented as RGB triplets, that can be displayed on the monitor. The palette is simply a block of fast RAM which is addressed by the logical colour and whose output is split into the red, green and blue levels which drive the actual display (e.g. CRT). The number of entries (logical colours) in the palette is the total number of colours which can appear on screen simultaneously. The width of each entry determines the number of colours which the palette can be set to produce. A common example would be a palette of 256 colours (i.e. addressed by eight-bit pixel values) where each colour can be chosen from a total of 16.7 million colours (i.e. eight bits output for each of red, green and blue). Changes to the palette affect the whole screen at once and can be used to produce special effects which would be much slower to produce by updating pixels. 1
- noun palette artist's mixing plate 1
- noun palette box of paints 1
- noun palette artist's paint colours 1
- noun palette graphics: colour range 1
- countable noun palette A palette is a flat piece of wood or plastic on which an artist mixes paints. 0
- countable noun palette You can refer to the range of colours that are used by a particular artist or group of artists as their palette. 0
- noun palette a flat piece of wood, plastic, etc, used by artists as a surface on which to mix their paints 0
- noun palette the range of colours characteristic of a particular artist, painting, or school of painting 0
- noun palette the available range of colours or patterns that can be displayed by a computer on a visual display unit 0
- noun palette either of the plates of metal attached by a strap to the cuirass in a suit of armour to protect the armpits 0
- noun palette a thin board or tablet of wood, plastic, etc., often with a hole for the thumb at one end, on which an artist arranges and mixes paints 0
- noun palette the colors used by a particular artist or for a particular painting 0