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Technicolor^¹

/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/ UK

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

noun

uncountable A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour. filmed in Technicolor [collocation in movie credits]

adjective

not comparable Using the Technicolor process. 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.

technicolor^²

/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/ UK

Sounds like Technicolor

adjective technicolour

US, not comparable Extremely or excessively colourful. I can stand the sight of worms / And look at microscopic germs / But technicolor pachyderms / Is really too much for me
not comparable Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard Model but lacks a scalar Higgs field.

noun technicolors · technicolour

US A process of colour cinematography using synchronised monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print.
informal Vivid colour.
A collection of theories based on quantum chromodynamics

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@misc{technicolor_2026,
  title = {technicolor},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/technicolor},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}