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colortypes

colortypes is the plural of colortype.

Meaning of colortype

Noun

colortype (plural colortypes)

  1. (historical) A color print that is produced by combining the images from three photo-engraved plates, each contributing a single primary color (red, blue, or yellow).
    • There are two good colortypes and a number of half-tone illustrations. Many of the latter have unfortunately been spoiled in the printing.1896, Photographic Times, page 109

Questions about colortypes

What is colortypes the plural of?
Colortypes is the plural of colortype.

Words near colortypes in the dictionary

  1. colorscrews
  2. colorsome
  3. colorspace
  4. colorspaces
  5. colortype
  6. colortypes
  7. colorum
  8. colorums
  9. colorwash
  10. colorwashed
  11. colorwashes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colortypes (page history and authors); colortype (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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