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belonging to the group of people with skin that is pale in colour, who come from or whose family originally came from Europe:
adjective. us / waɪt / uk / waɪt / white adjective (COLOR) Add to word list. A1. of a color like that of snow, milk, or bone: a white T-shirt. white walls. a black and white dog. He's white-haired now. Peter Gardner/Dorling Kindersley/GettyImages. C2. having a pale face because you are not well, or you are feeling shocked:
The meaning of WHITE is having the color of new snow or milk; specifically : of the color white. How to use white in a sentence.
noun. a color without hue at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to black. A white surface reflects light of all hues completely and diffusely.
WHITE definition: 1. being the colour of snow or milk: 2. Someone who is white has skin that is pale in colour: 3…. Learn more.
You know white when you see it; it's the color of a glass of milk or a puffy cloud or freshly fallen snow. Scientifically speaking, white has no hue at all. Ask a physicist and they'll tell you that white is what you see when all the colors of visible light come together.
A white surface reflects light of all hues completely and diffusely. Most so-called whites are very light grays: fresh snow, for example, reflects about 80 percent of the incident light, but to be strictly white, snow would have to reflect 100 percent of the incident light.