Hue
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The attribute of visual sensation which has given rise to colour names, such as blue, green, yellow, red, purple etc.
Note: This attribute is the psychosensorial correlate, or nearly so, of the colorimetric quantity "dominant wavelength".
Reference: C.I.E.
Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)
