pigment meaning

Noun: pigment  pigmunt

1. Dry colouring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) 
2. Any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic colour 
3. A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
   "artists use 'paint' and 'pigment' interchangeably"
   - paint

Verb: pigment  pigmunt

1. Acquire pigment; become coloured or imbued 
2. Colour or dye with a pigment
   "pigment a photograph"

Derived forms: pigmenting, pigments, pigmented

See also: pigmentation

Type of: coat, coating, color [US], color in [US], coloring material [US], colorise [Brit], colorize [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], colour in [Brit, Cdn], colouring material [Brit, Cdn], colourise [Brit], colourize [Brit, Cdn], hue

Encyclopedia: Pigment Pigment, biology

[Architecture]
1.

A finely ground inorganic or organic powder which is dispersed in a liquid vehicle to make paint; may provide, in addition to color, many of the essential properties of a paint—opacity, hardness, durability, and corrosion resistance.

2.

Coloring matter, usually in the form of an insoluble fine powder, used to color concrete, etc.

[Medicine]
n : a coloring matter in animals and plants esp. in a cell or tissue; also : any of various related colorless substances

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1. the photosynthetic pigment in bacteria is bacteriochlorophyll.
2. bacteria or bile pigment may serve as a nidus for crystal formation.
3. many genes are involved in the formation of anthocyanin pigments in the aleurone.
4. of the total industrial cadmium use, 90% is utilized in electroplating and pigments.
5. when highly purified, the red-absorbing form of the pigment is blue-green.