precolor

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adjective

Before the advent of color film, and thus presented in black and white.

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Meanings

adjectiveprecolor (not comparable)

alternative precolour

  1. not comparablebroadcastingBefore 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
verbprecolor (third-person singular simple present precolors, present participle precoloring, simple past and past participle precolored)

present singular third person precolors · participle present precoloring · participle past precolored · past precolored · alternative precolour

  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

Origin

From pre- + color.

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APA

precolor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/precolor

MLA

“precolor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/precolor. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “precolor,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/precolor.

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