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adapted white
colour stimulus that an observer who is adapted to the viewing environment would judge to be perfectly achromatic and to have a luminance factor of unity
Note 1 to entry: The colour stimulus that is considered to be the adapted white can be different at different locations within a scene.
Note 2 to entry: This entry was numbered 17-21 and 17-1427 in CIE S 017:2011.