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# cyan

noun (cyan, uncountable); adjective (cyan)

«cyan» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Cyan is a bright greenish-blue colour, like a clear tropical sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#m1)
2. (science, printing) Cyan is one of the main colours of printer ink, together with magenta, yellow and black (CMYK). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#m2)

### In the lessons

In art and computing lessons cyan appears in colour mixing: in light, green + blue light make cyan; in printing, cyan ink absorbs red light. Printers often need a new cyan cartridge. It tells the reader an exact shade of blue-green. Related colours: turquoise, aqua, teal.

### Examples

- The printer has run out of cyan ink. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x1)
- Cyan is a mix of blue and green light. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x2)
- She painted the sky cyan in her picture. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x3)
- The swimming pool water looked cyan in the sun. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x4)
- CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow and black. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x5)
- On the screen, cyan and red together make white light. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x6)
- The cyan text was hard to read on the white page. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/#x7)

### Note

Pronounced «SY-an». Uncountable when it is a colour name. Cyan is very close to «aqua» and «turquoise»; in screen colours, cyan and aqua are the same. In printing, CMY are the subtractive primary colours; in light, RGB (red, green, blue) are the additive primary colours, and cyan is the opposite of red.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cyan» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyan/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cyan» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cyan.html) on Mova free.