Technicolor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour.
adj
  1. Using the Technicolor process.
adj
  1. Extremely or excessively colourful.
  2. Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard Model but lacks a scalar Higgs field.
noun
  1. A process of colour cinematography using synchronised monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print.
  2. Vivid colour.
  3. A collection of theories based on quantum chromodynamics

Pronunciation

/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/

Word forms

Technicolor technicolour technicolors

Etymology

Blend of technology + color. A trademark (1916), in reference to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of its three developers met.

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