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cyan-
1variant of cyano-, usually before a vowel or h: cyanamide.
cyan-
2variant of cyano-, before a vowel.
cyan-
3variant of cyano-, before a vowel.
cyan
4[sahy-an, sahy-uhn]
noun
cyan
1/ ˈsaɪən, ˈsaɪæn /
noun
a highly saturated green-blue that is the complementary colour of red and forms, with magenta and yellow, a set of primary colours
adjective
of this colour
a cyan filter
cyan-
2combining form
a variant of cyano-
cyanamide
cyanide
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cyan-1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cyan-1
Example Sentences
Through the window of an upper floor office in West Hollywood, the sky changed from cyan to navy and then indigo blue.
“We love mixing complementary colors, and the cyan and warm hues have visual elements that are part of the original film, but we’re also leading you into the musical side of this film when Lady Gaga begins to sing.”
For instance, Impossible Foods, one of the leading plant-based meat brands in the country, debuted new, red packaging — a departure from their current cyan labels — today at Natural Products Expo West.
If you dare to tune in to this movie, expect to fall teeth first into the underbelly of a gritty, desaturated dystopian mid-’90s metropolis, where every scene is muted in cyan, and red is the only color shown in its richest, purest form.
Overhead, the newsprint whips by in a blur, running through a succession of cylinders inked cyan, magenta, yellow and black, before converging into a central machine that folds and cuts it into individual papers.
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