It also had a secondary aesthetic effect of creating a polychromatic appearance.
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Instead we get a polychromatic explosion of rabid riffology and boyish exuberance.
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This church is built in polychromatic brick with some red sandstone dressings.
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The polychromatic letters are painted vertically, horizontally and even upside down.
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For polychromatic sources, wavelength ranges can be selected using filters.
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Polychromatic prints could be done, with two sets of blocks and an additional blue dye.
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Neo-Grec was eclectic, abstracted, polychromatic, and sometimes bizarre.
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Queen Anne homes often have polychromatic wall textures and highly decorative ornamentation.
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Never apologize for being polychromatic in a black-and-white world.
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(of light or other electromagnetic radiation) composed of more than one wavelength; "polychromatic light"
Having or exhibiting many colors
The term polychromatic means having several colours.
Showing a variety, or a change, of colours; having many colours; multicoloured; (of electromagnetic radiation) Composed of more than one wavelength
Having many colors; random or intuitive use of color combinations as opposed to color selection based on a specific color scheme.
Color, line and other elements act as expressive agents for mystical spiritualism--W.Kandinsky
A color scheme in which multiple colors are used.
Literally, "multicolored". The ballroom for the Grand Ball in honor of Grand Fleet is lit with them. He doesn't mention the colors changing that I can find. This is one of the very rare cases where I'm not actually sure why he's using the word. He doesn't use them at random.
A term derived from the Greek meaning "having many colors." Used in dental radiography to describe the x-ray beam because it is composed of many different wavelengths.