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# magenta

«magenta» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bright purplish-red or pinkish-purple colour** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (magenta, uncountable); adjective (magenta)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Magenta is a bright purplish-red or pinkish-purple colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magenta/#m1)

2) (science, printing) Magenta is one of the main colours of printer ink, with cyan, yellow and black (CMYK). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magenta/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In art and computing lessons it is used in colour mixing: in light, red + blue light make magenta; in printing, magenta ink is a primary colour. It is named after the town of Magenta in Italy, where a battle took place in 1859, the year the dye was discovered. Phrases: «magenta ink», «bright magenta».

### examples

- She painted the flowers bright magenta. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magenta/#x1)
- The printer needs a new magenta cartridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magenta/#x2)
- Red and blue light together make magenta. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magenta/#x3)
- My new scarf is magenta. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magenta/#x4)
- Mixing magenta and yellow ink makes red. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magenta/#x5)
- The sunset sky was streaked with magenta. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magenta/#x6)

### note

Uncountable when it is the colour name. Pronounced «muh-JEN-tuh». Interesting fact: there is no single wavelength of light for magenta; our brains make it when we see red and blue light together. Similar: fuchsia, pink, purple.

### In the corpora

- [Printers use cyan, magenta and yellow instead, which mix cleaner colours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «magenta» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magenta/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.