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Technicolor
adj, noun, slang
Definitions
Adjective
- 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 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 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 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 A process of colour cinematography using synchronised monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print. US
- 3 a trademarked method of making color motion pictures wordnet
- 4 Vivid colour. informal
- 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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