color wheel

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscolor circle

   Broadercolor chart

Questions about color wheel

What does color wheel mean?

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

What is another word for color wheel?

Close synonyms include color circle. 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 wheel a common word?

color wheel 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.