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tripack

tripack noun: film that has three emulsions sensitive to red, green, or blue stacked on top of one another.

Noun

tripack (countable and uncountable, plural tripacks)

  1. Film that has three emulsions sensitive to red, green, or blue stacked on top of one another.
    • In 1897 du Hauron conceived the idea of using a tripack for recording color photographs.2013, John Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography

Forms of tripack

pluraltripacks

Origin of tripack

From tri- + pack.

Questions about tripack

What does tripack mean?
Tripack means film that has three emulsions sensitive to red, green, or blue stacked on top of one another.
What part of speech is tripack?
Tripack is a noun.
What is the plural of tripack?
The plural of tripack is tripacks.

Words near tripack in the dictionary

  1. trip-switches
  2. trip-trap
  3. trip-trapped
  4. trip-trapping
  5. trip-traps
  6. tripack
  7. tripacks
  8. tripak
  9. tripaks
  10. tripalmitate
  11. tripalmitates

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