Associations to the word «Magenta»

MAGENTA, noun. A light purple, purplish-red, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.

MAGENTA, adjective. Having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.

MAGENTA, proper noun. A town in Northern Italy, site of the Battle of Magenta after which the color magenta was named.

MAGENTA, noun. A primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta.

MAGENTA, noun. A battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I.

MAGENTA, adjective. Of deep purplish red.