Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a color printing or photographic process in which three primary colors are transferred by three different plates or filters to a surface, reproducing all the colors of the subject matter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by the use of three colors; specifically, printed in three colors. See
three-color process , below.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, as red, yellow, and blue.
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Examples
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This is the physiological basis for what is called “trichromacy,” that is, the three-color basis for human color vision.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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This is the physiological basis for what is called “trichromacy,” that is, the three-color basis for human color vision.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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This is the physiological basis for what is called “trichromacy,” that is, the three-color basis for human color vision.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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This is the physiological basis for what is called “trichromacy,” that is, the three-color basis for human color vision.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Instead, we had a silver fake tree with a three-color wheel in front of a flood lamp that changed the tree into a free-standing blue/green/red no-touch zone.
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If this government does not pass the anti-corruption measure, he says, he will take India's three-color flag and join the people again for a renewed struggle.
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I stand by the box of sheet music from the twenties—bright three-color pictures of young lovers strolling in the park and spooning on porch swings, with titles like “A Moonlight Dance”, “Secret of Mine”, “At Sea in Your Eyes”—and wait.
Pieces Michael Hartford 2011
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I stand by the box of sheet music from the twenties—bright three-color pictures of young lovers strolling in the park and spooning on porch swings, with titles like “A Moonlight Dance”, “Secret of Mine”, “At Sea in Your Eyes”—and wait.
Pieces Michael Hartford 2011
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On my street art safaris, I started noticing these simple, beautiful three-color paint drip pieces on newspaper boxes and walls around NYC and L.A. I found out they were created by artist/filmmaker Gregory Siff who is doing them as promotional pieces for a film he is making.
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For those who want to move beyond a simple three-color guide, Paul Greenberg's excellent new book, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, chronicles the boom-and-bust cycles of four fish that "dominate the modern seafood market": salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna.
Peter Hanlon: Fish as Food, Fish as Wildlife: Four Fish (a Book Review) 2010
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