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məˈdʒɛn təma·gen·ta

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. magentanoun

    a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta

  2. Magenta, Battle of Magentaadjective

    a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I

  3. magentaadjective

    of deep purplish red

GCIDE

  1. magentanoun

    The purplish-red color of magenta.

Wiktionary

  1. magentanoun

    A light purple, purplish-red, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.

  2. magentaadjective

    having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.

  3. Magentanoun

    a town in Northern Italy, site of the Battle of Magenta after which the color magenta was named.

  4. Etymology: Named in 1859 by Edward Chambers Nicholson after the Battle of Magenta, fought earlier that year.

Wikipedia

  1. Magenta

    Magenta () is a color that is variously defined as pinkish-purplish-red, reddish-purplish-pink or mauvish-crimson. On color wheels of the RGB (additive) and CMY (subtractive) color models, it is located exactly midway between red and blue. It is one of the four colors of ink used in color printing by an inkjet printer, along with yellow and cyan, to make all other colors. The tone of magenta used in printing is called "printer's magenta". It is also a shade of pink. Magenta took its name from an aniline dye made and patented in 1859 by the French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin, who originally called it fuchsine. It was renamed to celebrate the Italian-French victory at the Battle of Magenta fought between the French and Austrians on 4 June 1859 near the Italian town of Magenta in Lombardy. A virtually identical color, called roseine, was created in 1860 by two British chemists, Edward Chambers Nicholson and George Maule. The web color magenta is also called fuchsia.

ChatGPT

  1. magenta

    Magenta is a color that is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. It is not a color in the visible spectrum of light, rather it is a combination of blue and red light, and does not have a specific wavelength. It is used in the CMYK color model used in printing to help create a wide range of colors.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Magentanoun

    an aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc

Wikidata

  1. MAGENTA

    In cryptography, MAGENTA is a symmetric key block cipher developed by Michael Jacobson Jr. and Klaus Huber for Deutsche Telekom. The name MAGENTA is an acronym for Multifunctional Algorithm for General-purpose Encryption and Network Telecommunication Applications. The cipher was submitted to the Advanced Encryption Standard process, but did not advance beyond the first round; cryptographic weaknesses were discovered and it was found to be one of the slower ciphers submitted. MAGENTA has a block size of 128 bits and key sizes of 128, 192 and 256 bits. It is a Feistel cipher with six or eight rounds. After the presentation of the cipher at the first AES conference, several cryptographers immediately found vulnerabilities. These were written up and presented at the second AES conference.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Magenta

    ma-jen′ta, n. a colour between pink and red. [From the battle of Magenta in North Italy, 1859.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Magenta

    Italian town, 15 m. W. of Milan, where Macmahon defeated a superior Austrian force in 1859.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. magenta

    A town of Italy, in Lombardy, 15 miles west from Milan. A great battle was fought here in June, 1859, between the French and Austrians, in which the latter were defeated. The French were commanded by Gen. MacMahon, who received the title of Duke of Magenta.

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Etymology and Origins

  1. Magenta

    This colour was so called because first produced after the battle of Magenta in 1859.

Entomology

  1. Magenta

    pinkish red; an aniline product.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of magenta in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of magenta in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of magenta in a Sentence

  1. Michael McCormack:

    T-Mobile wanted to win a marketing campaign with a big magenta map that lights up the whole country, with Verizon or ATT, you'll just see little dots around the country. But whether that brings new customers [ to T-Mobile ] remains to be seen.

  2. Field Museum senior research scientist:

    There’s more than one way to make magenta with iridescence, the parent species each have their own way of making magenta, which is, I think, why you can have this nonlinear or surprising outcome when you mix together those two recipes for producing a feather color.

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