Palette

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A palette is:

• a thin board that a painter holds and mixes colour pigments on.
• a set of colours put on a palette, or in a more general sense, a particular set or quality of colours.
• an analagous range of choices in fine arts or design, e. g. Ravel’s orchestral palette
• Palette (computing), the available colours supported by a computer graphics system
• the valve under an organ pipe which is connected to the keyboard(s)—as opposed to the stop valve.
• the name of a mannequin humanoid robot designed for the fashion and service industry by Tatsuya Matsui of Flower Robotics, Inc.

A palette should not be confused with the following orthographically distinct items:

• palate, the roof of the mouth
• pallet, a holder for goods for use with a forklift

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