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four-colour

noun

  1. modifier (of a print or photographic process) using the principle in which four colours (magenta, cyan, yellow, and black) are used in combination to produce almost any other colour
“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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Siegel and Shuster had created a new archetype – or perhaps, more accurately, a new stereotype – and by 1940, once the nascent genre had demonstrated that it could get kids to part with millions of dimes per month, swarms of imitators catapulted hordes of four-colour heroes into the skies, all chasing the gold in this golden age.

When the four-colour theorem was proved in the 1970s, there was plenty of heated discussion among mathematicians, philosophers, and computer scientists.

They are well known, starting with the proof of the four-colour theorem.

A blue alert, called when the sea ice stretches out more than 60 nautical miles, is the lowest tier on China’s four-colour alert system for severe weather, with red being the highest.

From Reuters

A blue alert, called when the sea ice stretches out more than 60 nautical miles, is the lowest tier on China’s four-colour alert system for severe weather, with red being the highest.

From Reuters

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