Technicolor
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Technicolor is an adjective meaning (American spelling) Extremely or excessively colourful.
Meaning
(American spelling) Extremely or excessively colourful.
More Meanings
- (physics) Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard Model but lacks a scalar Higgs field.
- (informal) Vivid colour.
- (physics) A collection of theories based on quantum chromodynamics
- (American spelling) A process of colour cinematography using synchronised monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print.
Example Sentences
It's so hard to be a technicolor girl in an earth-tone world.
Technicolour dreams are all I see / Technicolour dreams of you and me
I can stand the sight of worms / And look at microscopic germs / But technicolor pachyderms / Is really too much for me
On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene / But yours was kitchen clean / Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home
Word Forms
- technicolour
- technicolors
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include colour, strip, colours, colors, pseudocolour, hypercolour.
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