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