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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A technique in video and photography editing in which portions of an image containing a preselected color, such as a bluescreen background, are replaced with material from a separate image using an electronic color filter.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of chromakey.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[chroma + key, to chromakey; see key.]

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