The COLOR TEMPERATURE of a white pixel on a computer monitor. Most computer monitors have a white point of 6500 Kelvin (or higher), which means that white objects on the monitor are actually blue-white, rather than pure white. This in turn means that colors displayed on the monitor are inaccurate.
See: reference white point
The lightest area of a computer monitor is called the white point. This refers to the colour temperature of the monitor and generally varies from 5000 Kelvins, to 6500K, through to 9300K.
A movable reference point that defines the lightest area in an image, causing all other areas to be adjusted accordingly.
This is a term used to describe the characteristics of a monitor. The value is given as a colour temperature (in Kelvin), which represents the monitor's ability to display a pure white. Also the point set in scanning for the lightest high light dot that does not burn out - usually around 3C, 2M, 2Y, 0K.
The lightest tone discernable in an image; all values paler than this threshold appear as white.
A white point is one of a number of reference illuminants used in colorimetry which serve to define the color "white". Depending on the application, different definitions of white are needed to give acceptable results. For example, photographs taken indoors may be lit by incandescent lights, which are relatively orange compared to daylight.