from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
RGB
Red, Green, Blue. The three colours of light which can be
mixed to produce any other colour. Coloured images are often
stored as a sequence of RGB triplets or as separate red, green
and blue overlays though this is not the only possible
representation (see {CMYK} and {HSV}). These colours
correspond to the three "guns" in a colour {cathode ray tube}
and to the colour receptors in the human eye.
Often used as a synonym for colour, as in "RGB monitor" as
opposed to {monochrome} (black and white).