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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A box used to hold an artist's paints.
2. 2
   a box containing a collection of cubes or tubes of artists' paint wordnet
3. 3
   Computer hardware or software for creating or editing graphics. broadly

   "Nolan visits the Quantel computer laboratory to experiment with its vast digital paintbox."

Example

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"Nolan visits the Quantel computer laboratory to experiment with its vast digital paintbox."

Etymology

From paint + box.

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