1 Scope
NOTE Several points of view with respect to the preferred terminology on "monochrome", "achromatic", "chromatic", "colour", "full-colour", etc. can be encountered in the field amongst spectroscopists, (general-) physicists, colour-perception scientists, physical engineers and electrical engineers. In general, all LCDs demonstrate some sort of chromaticity (e.g. as function of viewing angle, ambient temperature or externally addressable means). Pending detailed official description of the subject, the pre-fix pertaining to the "chromaticity" of the display will be used so as to describe the colour capability of the display that is externally (and electrically) addressable by the user. This leads us to the following definitions (see also [19])
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a) a monochrome display has NO user-addressable chromaticity ("colours"). It may or may not be "black and white" or a-chromatic;
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b) a colour display has at least two user-addressable chromaticities ("colours"). A 64-colour display has 64 addressable colours (often made using 2 bits per primary for 3 primaries), etc. A full-colour display has at least 6 bits per primary (≥ 260 thousand colours).