Home › Words › C › chrominancechrominance/ˈkɹəʊ.mɪn.əns/chrominance means the signal used in video systems to convey the picture's colour information, separately from the accompanying luma signal.chrominance is pronounced /ˈkɹəʊ.mɪn.əns/.EtymologyBlend of chroma + luminance.nounThe signal used in video systems to convey the picture's colour information, separately from the accompanying luma signal.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.chroma 61% match — The colorfulness relative to the brightness of a similarly illuminated area vs chrominance →chromaticity 59% match — An objective specification of the quality of a colour, regardless of its luminance. vs chrominance →technicolor 58% match — A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour. vs chrominance →colorburst 56% match — A generated video signal used to keep the chrominance subcarrier synchronized in a color television signal. vs chrominance →chromatism 56% match — The state of being coloured vs chrominance →chromonym 56% match — A term used for a color. vs chrominance →chromometry 55% match — The measurement of colour. vs chrominance →chromism 54% match — chromatism (the state of being colored) vs chrominance →