Amber
- Proper noun. (given name, female) , popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
- Proper noun. (surname, dot ) of uncertain origin.
- Proper noun. (given name, female) .
- Proper noun. A ruined city in Rajasthan, India.
- Noun. A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
- Noun. A brownish yellow colour.
- Noun. (British) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
- Noun. (context, biology) The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
- Noun. (context, obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
- Adjective. Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
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