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precolor

precolor adjective: before the advent of color film, and thus presented in black and white.

Adjective

precolor (not comparable)

  1. Before the advent of color film, and thus presented in black and white.
    • They also bring to mind stylish movie sets in precolor Hollywood; Fred and Ginger or a phalanx of Busby Berkeley dancers could easily drift among their mirrored, ethereal forms.2009 June 19, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times

Verb

precolor (third-person singular simple present precolors, present participle precoloring, simple past and past participle precolored)

  1. To color beforehand.
    • This approach also makes use of the Precolored option to FourColoring, which in this case is used to precolor all vertices but one.1999, Stan Wagon, Mathematica in Action, Page 522

Forms of precolor

Adjective
alternative formprecolour
Verb
third-person singular presentprecolors
present participleprecoloring
past participleprecolored
pastprecolored

Origin of precolor

From pre- + color.

Questions about precolor

What does precolor mean?
Precolor means before the advent of color film, and thus presented in black and white.
What part of speech is precolor?
Precolor can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near precolor in the dictionary

  1. precolonialism
  2. precoloniality
  3. precolonially
  4. precolonials
  5. precolonized
  6. precolor
  7. precolored
  8. precoloring
  9. precolors
  10. precolostral
  11. precolour

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