colorcast
colorcast noun: an undesirable tint of color affecting another color in a photograph, due to an incorrect balance.
Noun
colorcast (countable and uncountable, plural colorcasts)
- An undesirable tint of color affecting another color in a photograph, due to an incorrect balance.
Verb
colorcast (third-person singular simple present colorcasts, present participle colorcasting, simple past and past participle colorcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) colorcasted)
- To broadcast television in color.
Forms of colorcast
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | colorcasts |
| alternative form | colourcast |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | colorcasts |
| present participle | colorcasting |
| past participle | colorcast |
| past | colorcast |
| past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | colorcasted |
| past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | colorcasted |
Origin of colorcast
From color + cast.
From color + -cast, from broadcast.
Questions about colorcast
- What does colorcast mean?
- Colorcast means an undesirable tint of color affecting another color in a photograph, due to an incorrect balance.
- What part of speech is colorcast?
- Colorcast can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of colorcast?
- The plural of colorcast is colorcasts.
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