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colourtype

colourtype is the alternative form 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

Forms of colourtype

pluralcolourtypes

Origin of colourtype

From colour + type.

Questions about colourtype

What is colourtype the alternative form of?
Colourtype is the alternative form of colortype.

Words near colourtype in the dictionary

  1. colours outside the lines
  2. colours up
  3. coloursome
  4. colourspace
  5. colourspaces
  6. colourtype
  7. colourtypes
  8. colourwash
  9. colourwashed
  10. colourwashes
  11. colourwashing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colourtype (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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