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Palette - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Canvas, Chalk, Charcoal, Crayon, Drier, Easel, Fixative, Ground, Medium, Paint, Pastel, Pencil, Pigments, Scratchboard, Sketchpad |
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A palette is:
- A thin board that a painter holds and mixes colour pigments on.
- A set of colours put on a palette, or in a more general sense, a particular set or quality of colours.
- In computer graphics, a mechanism where by any numeric value held by pixels may be assigned to a particular colour combination, usually specified in RGB. The primary advantage of this method is that a wide range of colour may be supported with a limited amount of graphics memory. Examples of computer graphics system using a palette is the IBM PC EGA and VGA, and the Tiki 100.
- the valve under an organ pipe which is connected to the keyboard(s)—as opposed to the stop valve.
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Example Usage of Palette |
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cponprod: im not sure if its my Palette, or this is just really terrible coffee. ugh, tastes like battery acid. this one's for you Bear. |
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lyndseykerins: So.... the trolls who took my eyeshadow Palette and ipod are making squeaky noises. That or there's a mouse in my wall. Gah! |
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christinenoel: Dear @Sephora, all I want for Christmas is Too Faced Glamour Revolution Palette. #sephoraclaus |
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