color temperature

English

Alternative forms

  • colour temperature

Noun

color temperature (countable and uncountable, plural color temperatures)

  1. (physics) A property of a light source: the temperature of an ideal black body radiator that radiates light of a color comparable to that of the light source.
    The typical color temperature of a standard incandescent lamp is about 2400 K.

Derived terms

  • correlated color temperature, correlated colour temperature

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