Definition of "black-and-white" [black-and-white]

• Partially black and partially white: a black-and-white cow. (adjective)
• Being in writing or print: black-and-white proof. (adjective)
• Rendered in black and white or in achromatic colors: a black-and-white drawing. (adjective)
• Of or relating to the reproduction or presentation of visual images in black and white: black-and-white television; black-and-white photography. (adjective)
• Expressing, recognizing, or based on two mutually exclusive sets of ideas or values: black-and-white categories; a black-and-white point of view. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "All vehicles that take people into space are "spaceships", or "spacecraft", but the name "space shuttle" only refers to the black-and-white airplane thing with the two pointy little booster rockets and the big orange tank."
• "The sixth verse, Cancer, refers to a black-and-white mosaic floor to which both Jesus and Asmodeus direct their gaze, obviously a description of the interior of Rennes-le-Château’s church."
• "Still, great films from around the world continued to be made in black-and-white."