• Contrast (vision)
  Contrast (vision)
  Contrast is the difference in visual properties that makes an object distinguishable from other objects and the background. In visual perception of the real world, contrast is determined by the difference in the color and brightness of the object and other objects within the same field of view...
  
  , the difference in color and light between parts of an image
• Contrast (linguistics)
  Contrast (linguistics)
  In semantics, contrast is a relationship between two discourse segments. Contrast is often overtly marked by markers such as but or however, such as in the following examples:# It's raining, but I am not taking an umbrella....
  
  , expressing distinctions between words
• Contrast (statistics)
  Contrast (statistics)
  In statistics, particularly analysis of variance, a contrast is a linear combination of two or more factor level means whose coefficients add up to zero. A simple contrast is the difference between two means...
  
  , a combination of averages whose coefficients add up to zero, or the difference between two means
• Contrast (literary)
  Contrast (literary)
  In literature, an author writes contrast when he or she describes the difference between two or more entities. For example, in the first four lines of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, Shakespeare contrasts a mistress to the sun, coral, snow, and wire....
  
  , describing the difference(s) between two or more entities

• The Contrast (band)
  The Contrast (band)
  The Contrast are a guitar power pop band based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. They were formed in 1999 by David Reid and have since released five albums on the New York based label Rainbow Quartz and one for Wicked Cool Records...
  
  , an English pop band
• The Contrast (play)
  The Contrast (play)
  The Contrast, written in 1787 by Royall Tyler, is an American play in the tradition of the English Restoration comedies of the seventeenth century; it takes its cue from Sheridan's The School for Scandal, a British comedy of manners that had revived that tradition a decade before. Royall uses the...
  
  , an American play written in 1787 by Royall Tyler

See also

• Contrast medium
  Contrast medium
  A medical contrast medium is a substance used to enhance the contrast of structures or fluids within the body in medical imaging...
  
   used to distinguish structures or fluids within a body, often shortened to just "contrast"
• Contrast ratio
  Contrast ratio
  The contrast ratio is a property of a display system, defined as the ratio of the luminance of the brightest color to that of the darkest color that the system is capable of producing...
  
  , a measure of a display system
• Display contrast
  Display contrast
  Contrast in visual perception is the difference in appearance of two or more parts of a field seen simultaneously or successively ....
  
  , of electronic visual displays