cyans
SaySY-anz/ˈsaɪˌænz/
- 1Plural of cyan.
The designer compared three cyans before settling on one for the logo.
Printers stock a range of cyans suited to different paper types.
Note
A plural that exists only because the color can be counted. As a mass noun, cyan names the color in general and takes no plural. Once it names particular shades, inks or samples, it becomes countable, and two cyans are two distinct versions of that green-blue. The adjective never inflects, so cyan logos stay cyan however many there are.
cyans is a form of cyan
cyan, noun: An additive secondary color midway between green and blue, produced by light of roughly 490 to 520 nanometers. Full entry
- Forms
- cyancyans plural
- Spelling
- cyan → cyans: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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