color temperature

English

Alternative forms

• colour temperature

Noun

color temperature (countable and uncountable, plural color temperatures)

1. (physics) A property of a light source: the temperature of an ideal black body radiator that radiates light of a color comparable to that of the light source.

   The typical color temperature of a standard incandescent lamp is about 2400 K.

Derived terms

• correlated color temperature, correlated colour temperature

Translations

in physics

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 色溫／色温 (sik¹ wan¹)

  Mandarin: 色溫／色温 (zh) (sèwēn)

• Finnish: värilämpötila
• Hungarian: színhőmérséklet (hu)