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chroma key

chroma key is the alternative spelling of chromakey.

Meaning of chromakey

Noun

chromakey (countable and uncountable, plural chromakeys)

  1. The use of a particular color, usually either green or blue) as a key in a studio in order to allow one image to be seamlessly partially superimposed upon another.

See all 2 meanings of chromakey

Forms of chroma key

Noun
pluralchroma keys
Verb
third-person singular presentchroma keys
present participlechroma keying
past participlechroma keyed
pastchroma keyed

Questions about chroma key

What is chroma key the alternative spelling of?
Chroma key is the alternative spelling of chromakey.

Words near chroma key in the dictionary

  1. chrolactomycins
  2. chrom-brugnatellite
  3. chroma
  4. chroma dot
  5. chroma dots
  6. chroma key
  7. chroma keyed
  8. chroma keyer
  9. chroma keyers
  10. chroma keying
  11. chroma keys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chroma key (page history and authors); chromakey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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