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See also: technicolor

Technicolor ‎(uncountable)

A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyper-realistic, saturated levels of colour.

Technicolor ‎(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.

See also: Technicolor

technicolor ‎(plural technicolors)

A process of colour cinematography using synchronised monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print.
(informal) Vivid colour.

technicolor ‎(not comparable)

Extremely or excessively colourful
- 2007 May 2, “Letters”, in New York Times:
  It's so hard to be a technicolor girl in an earth-tone world.
- 2007 November 18, Jim Holt, “Mind of a Rock”, in New York Times:
  How could the electrochemical processes in the lump of gray matter that is our brain give rise to or, even more mysteriously, be the dazzling technicolor play of consciousness, with its transports of joy, its stabs of anguish and its stretches of mild contentment alternating with boredom?
(physics) Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard model but lacks a scalar Higgs field.

Some use the British English spelling of colour to give technicolour, but this might be considered incorrect as the word comes from a trademark spelt without the "u". However, the Oxford Dictionary shows both spellings.
Perhaps the most common use of this word is in the title of the popular musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.