Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Characterized by the use of three colors; specifically, printed in three colors. See three-color process, below.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, as red, yellow, and blue.
Examples
“This is the physiological basis for what is called “trichromacy,” that is, the three-color basis for human color vision.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Paper Magazine: Gregory Siff's Cinematic Street Art
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Peter Hanlon: Fish as Food, Fish as Wildlife: Four Fish (a Book Review)
“The simple three-color schemes -- green (good!), yellow (okay ... maybe!) and red (really bad!) -- used by several different seafood consumer guides have certainly helped to raise public awareness of dwindling fish species.”
The Huffington Post: Peter Hanlon: Fish as Food, Fish as Wildlife: Four Fish (a Book Review)
“The 24×32 three-color print (featuring metallic gold ink) is signed by Todd and individually numbered.”
“One wrong move and they could have destroyed a contestant's arduous efforts in winning the coveted three-color MOF collar.”
“Most impressive were its XBR8 1080p models -- specifically, the 55-inch KDL-55XBR8 and 46-inch KDL-46XBR8 models -- which incorporate Sony's "Triluminos" three-color LED backlighting technology for a greater color range (by aligning individual clusters of red, blue and green LEDs opposed to traditional white LED backlights).”
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