Munsell system is a method of precise color description, based on comparison with comprehensive hue and saturation charts. Has closest application to pigments, whereas the CIE system relates directly to light.
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Chroma
The quality of a colour that is the combination of hue and brightness. In the Munsell system of colour notation, chroma indicates the purity of a colour as measured along an axis; the farther from the axis, the purer the colour.
of pureness or movement away from gray; (2) the greatest degree of vapor that ambient air can hold at a certain temperature; (3) the greatest degree of concentration of a solute in a solution or solvent; (4) referred to as chroma in Munsell System.
 See also: Hue, Format, Image, Wavelength, Time
  
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