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three-colour

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adjective

  1. of, relating to, or comprising a colour print or a photomechanical process in which a picture is reproduced by superimposing three prints from half-tone plates in inks corresponding to the three primary colours

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The best telescope objectives, and photographic objectives intended for three-colour work, are also apochromatic, even if they do not possess quite the same quality of correction as microscope objectives do.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

If I have many more such shocks as he gave me I shall give up paint altogether and specialise in photography or the three-colour process.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 22, 1917 by Various

This is sufficient for all ordinary halls and slides, but where these latter are very dense, as for example with the Lumi�re three-colour process, as much as 20 or 25 amp�res may be required.

From Optical Projection Part 1: Projection of Lantern Slides by Wright, Lewis

His gown in the reproduction is the best sample of three-colour work I had had done, and he was so pleased with my drawing that he bought it.

From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Ward, Leslie

This process is repeated if a three-colour design is desired.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

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