color mixer

noun

: an apparatus for color mixture

especially : a wheel provided with concentric colored disks slit along a radius and dovetailed so as to reveal differently colored sectors which when whirled rapidly blend into a circle of uniform color

Word History

First Known Use

1774, in the meaning defined above

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