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Technicolor

/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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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