Definitions for pigment

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pigment pig·ment

Spelling: [pig-muh nt]

IPA: /ˈpɪg mənt/

Pigment is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in pigment (egimnpt).

Definitions for pigment

noun

1. a dry insoluble substance, usually pulverized, which when suspended in a liquid vehicle becomes a paint, ink, etc.
2. a coloring matter or substance.
3. Biology. any substance whose presence in the tissues or cells of animals or plants colors them.

verb (used with object)

1. to color; add pigment to.

verb (used without object)

1. to become pigmented; acquire color; develop pigmentation:

Origin of pigment

1350-1400; Middle English Latin pigmentum paint, equivalent to pig- (stem of pingere to paint) + -mentum -ment

Examples for pigment

And there were the splotches of pigment of which Calhoun had heard.

To save them from yellow fever, nature gave them pigment and lost them friends.

It is a matter of regret that this pigment is not equally efficacious in oil.

The place of the pigment is taken by gas-bubbles, and that is what causes the whiteness.

It has not been, however, employed as a pigment, or at least is not at present.

Tan also is due to pigment in the skin and is caused by light.

Had the image been painted on the cloth by a forger, the paint traces of the pigment would have remained on the surface.

Like the chrome molybdate it would be superfluous as a pigment.

The Daily Pic: Are the YBA's prints about the color of pigment, or the color of money?

"I need to know something about the pigment patches," he said jerkily.