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process color

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English

Syllables
pro-cess -col-or
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A printing process which uses four specific colored inks: cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK), and halftone printing plates, to reproduce a range of colors.

Etymology

Short for four color printing process.

Inflected Forms

process colors (plural) process colour (alternative, Commonwealth)

Frequently Paired Words

spot color

Synonyms

CMYK four color full process full color

Questions

What does process color mean?
A printing process which uses four specific colored inks: cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK), and halftone printing plates, to reproduce a range of colors.
Where does process color come from?
Short for four color printing process.

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