Technicolor

adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Using the Technicolor process. not-comparable

    "It was his opinion that 1946's Do You Love Me, a Technicolor musical, would go down much better with 'industrial audiences' than the 'better class' of viewer."

  2. 2
    Extremely or excessively colourful. US, not-comparable

    "I can stand the sight of worms / And look at microscopic germs / But technicolor pachyderms / Is really too much for me"

  3. 3
    Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard Model but lacks a scalar Higgs field. not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour. uncountable

    "filmed in Technicolor [collocation in movie credits]"

  2. 2
    A process of colour cinematography using synchronised monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print. US
  3. 3
    a trademarked method of making color motion pictures wordnet
  4. 4
    Vivid colour. informal
  5. 5
    A collection of theories based on quantum chromodynamics

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

From Technicolor.

Etymology 4

From Technicolor.

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