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color model

noun

Definition of color model

: a system for categorizing all possible colors in terms of numbers representing proportions of basic hues Colors can be printed in CMYK (blended from four ink colors: cyan, magenta, yellow and black) …; they appear on a computer screen via the RGB color model, which combines red, green and blue light.— Maura Judkis

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 Biohackers will soon be able to forgo these companies altogether with an all-in-one desktop genome printer: a device much like an inkjet printer that employs the letters AGTC — genetic base pairs — instead of the color model CMYK. — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, "As D.I.Y. Gene Editing Gains Popularity, ‘Someone Is Going to Get Hurt’," 14 May 2018

First Known Use of color model

1972, in the meaning defined above

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