hypercolor

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Etymology

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From hyper- +‎ color. In the clothing sense, initially a trademark of Generra Sportswear Company of Seattle.

Noun

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hypercolor (uncountable)

  1. (physics) A hypothetical attractive force that binds prequarks together by the exchange of hypergluons, analogous to the exchange of gluons by the color force, which binds quarks together.
    • 2016, Hiroyuki Ishida, Shinya Matsuzaki, Yuya Yamaguchi, “Invisible Axion-Like Dark Matter from Electroweak Bosonic Seesaw”, in arXiv[1]:
      We explore a model based on the classically-scale invariant standard model (SM) with a strongly coupled vector-like dynamics, which is called hypercolor (HC).
  2. (attributive) A line of clothing, mainly T-shirts and shorts, that change color when exposed to heat.
    • 2005, Out, volume 13, number 9, page 16:
      [] hypercolor T-shirts and coffee dates []
    • 2008, Wednesday Lee Friday, A Stabbing for Sadie, page 21:
      It's all over my blue hyper-color shirt...dammit; I've had this shirt for years. It changes color and everything...
    • 2020, Simon Rodberg, What If I'm Wrong?, page 72:
      When I was in middle school, there was a brief craze for “hypercolor” T-shirts, which changed color (mine went from blue to pink) when someone pressed their hand against the fabric.

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