precolor

adj, verb — 2 senses

precolor

adj

Etymology From pre- + color.

1

Broadcasting, Film, Media, Television 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:

precolor

verb

Etymology From pre- + color.

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:

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