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hypercolour

hypercolour is the alternative form of hypercolor.

Meaning of hypercolor

Noun

hypercolor (uncountable)

  1. A hypothetical attractive force that binds prequarks together by the exchange of hypergluons, analogous to the exchange of gluons by the color force, which binds quarks together.
    • We explore a model based on the classically-scale invariant standard model (SM) with a strongly coupled vector-like dynamics, which is called hypercolor (HC).2016, Hiroyuki Ishida, Shinya Matsuzaki, Yuya Yamaguchi, “Invisible Axion-Like Dark Matter from Electroweak Bosonic Seesaw”, in arXiv
  2. (attributive) A line of clothing, mainly T-shirts and shorts, that change color when exposed to heat.
    • […] hypercolor T-shirts and coffee dates […]2005, Out, volume 13, number 9, page 16

Origin of hypercolour

From hyper- + colour.

Questions about hypercolour

What is hypercolour the alternative form of?
Hypercolour is the alternative form of hypercolor.

Words near hypercolour in the dictionary

  1. hypercolonization
  2. hypercolonize
  3. hypercolonized
  4. hypercolor
  5. hypercolossal
  6. hypercolour
  7. hypercolumn
  8. hypercolumnar
  9. hypercolumns
  10. hypercommercialism
  11. hypercommodified

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hypercolour (page history and authors); hypercolor (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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