cyan

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos, “blue, various blue materials or things”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪˌæn/, /ˈsaɪ.ən/, /saɪˈæn/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -aɪən, -æn

cyan (countable and uncountable, plural cyans)

1. An additive secondary colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.

   cyan (additive secondary):  

   cyan (subtractive primary):  

cyan (comparative more cyan, superlative most cyan)

1. Of the colour cyan.

• haemocyanin, hemocyanin

• cyan-
• cyano-

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

• cyan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -ancy, cany

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪjan]

cyan m inan

1. (printing) cyan

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos).

• IPA^(key): /sjɑ̃/

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cyan m (plural cyans)

1. cyan (vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum)

   Near-synonym: céruléen

• cyaan, cyaa, cyah, cyahn, cyar

From English can't.

• IPA^(key): /kjan/

cyan

1. cannot

• cyan – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

cyan

1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (colour)

• cyanfärgad

cyan

1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (colour)
2. (colloquial) Almost any chemical compound containing a cyanide group; especially if this compound is in gaseous state.

• (colour): cyanfärg

• cyanblå

• blågrön
• cyankalium
• cyanid
• cyanväte
• turkos