The portion of the video signal that represents color. It is not very useful by itself; if so used, it would produce a colored image but all the colors would be the same intensity. For example all shades of red from a dark brown to pink would show up as the same red. Chrominance signals are usually a pair, as if to permit graphing all the possible colors in two
dimensions, on a color wheel. One example (NTSC <a>
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