Contrast

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A contrast is a distinction between 2 ideas, objects or colours. A large contrast is a big difference, and contrasting objects are boldly different.

Contrast can refer to:

• Contrast (vision), the difference in colour and light between parts of an image.
  • Contrast (formula), the formulae for distinguishing colours.
  • Simultaneous contrast, where the colour of one object is affected by the colour of another.
• Contrast (music), a set of procedures for music.
• Contrast (linguistics), the distinctions between words.
• Contrast (statistics), a set of means whose sum is zero.
• Contrast effect in psychology, a change in a normal percept or act resulting from experience with a stimulus of different value in the same dimension.
• Radiocontrast, compounds used to increase the quality of X-Rays or MRI scans.
• Contrast (song), a song by 2 Unlimited