primary color

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primary color (plural primary colors)

  1. Any of three colors which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colors
    Coordinate terms: secondary color, tertiary color
    Red, blue and green are additive primary colors.
    Magenta, yellow and cyan are subtractive primary colors.

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