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Adjective black-and-white has 2 senses

black-and-white, black and white - not having or not capable of producing colors; "black-and-white film"; "a black-and-white TV"; "the movie was in black and white"
Antonyms: color, colour
black-and-white - of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories; "he rejected a black-and-white world"; "there are no black-and-white certainties"; "there were no gray areas, you were either for him or against him, he was all black-and-white"
Antonym: united (indirect, via divided)

Noun black-and-white has 2 senses

print, black and white - the result of the printing process; "I want to see it in black and white"
--₁ is a kind of written communication, written language
--₁ has particulars: fingerprint; small print, fine print
black and white, monochrome - a black-and-white photograph or slide
--₂ is a kind of photograph, photo, exposure, pic