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hue

noun \ˈhyü\

Medical Definition of HUE

:  the one of the three psychological dimensions of color perception that permits them to be classified as red, yellow, green, blue, or an intermediate between any contiguous pair of these colors and that is correlated with the wavelength or the combination of wavelengths comprising the stimulus—compare brightness, saturation 4a

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