GRAY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of gray in English

(Definition of gray from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of gray from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of gray

gray
In the skulls of extinct taxa, the orbit and nares are represented by dark gray shading.
The cortical gray-matter volume was evenly affected in all lobes.
Subsequently, the cavity was completely filled with gray marl up to the level of the bedrock surface.
A ship is visible on the normal horizon, while above it is the gray barrier of the hafgerdingar.
Many students, particularly in primary school, volunteered this information and then randomly assigned these caps to colors or grays.
The incoming and reflected laser light is shown as light gray cones.
Without genetics, offspring would be an average of their parents, and the eventual population, uniformly gray.
In a second procedure, matched gray and green stimuli were used to define targets for rapid, high-accuracy, three-dimensional pointing movements.
An intuitive way to see this is to consider the color categories reported for the gray samples.
The control stimulus (thick gray line) had five peaks (numbered 1-5), corresponding to its five preferred movements.
One monomer of each dimer in the heterotetramer is shown in gray for clarity.
Ominous forecasts about our graying population and the next recession.
The polynomial fit of the total normalized entropy with the three highest and three lowest scored sessions highlighted in darker and lighter gray, respectively.
The gray scale shown to the right is used to visualize the response magnitude as fractional change in reflection 10 4.
He noted that the red flowers seemed black, while the blue flowers seemed gray.
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Translations of gray

in Chinese (Traditional)
(grey 的美式拼寫), 格雷(放射吸收劑量國際單位)…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(grey 的美式拼写), 格雷(放射吸收剂量国际单位)…
in Spanish
ortografía americana de "grey":, gris, nublado…
in Portuguese
ortografia americana de "grey":, cinza, grisalho…
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in Russian
“grey” の米国式つづり方, 灰色(はいいろ), 灰色(はいいろ)の…
gri, kül rengi…
gris [masculine], gris/grise, grisonnant/-ante…
ortografia americana de “grey”: gris…
الهجاء الأمريكي لكَلِمةgrey…
grått [neuter], gråfarge [masculine], grå…
“grey”의 미국식 영어 철자법: 회색…
forma americana di “grey”…
см. grey…
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