a thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colours 调色板 ■the range of colours used by a particular artist or in a particular picture (某一画家或某一幅画用的)一组颜色 I choose a palette of natural, earthy colours. 我选用一组自然朴实的颜色。 ■(figurative)the range or variety of tonal or instrumental colour in a musical piece (喻)(乐曲的)一组音调;音色 he commands the sort of tonal palette which this music needs. 他把握住了这首曲子所需要的那种音色。 ■(in computer graphics) the range of colours or shapes available to the user (计算机绘图用语)绘图工具窗口,调色板(供用户选用的一组颜色或图形)
语源
late 18th cent.: from French, diminutive of pale 'shovel', from Latin pala 'spade'