color circle

1. 1.

   a chart in which complementary colors (or their names) are arranged on opposite sides of a circle

   Synonymscolor wheel

   Broadercolor chart

Questions about color circle

What does color circle mean?

color circle means "a chart in which complementary colors (or their names) are arranged on opposite sides of a circle".

What is another word for color circle?

Close synonyms include color wheel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is color circle a common word?

color circle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.