Coloration
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Coloration is a noun meaning The act or art of coloring.
Meaning
The act or art of coloring.
More Meanings
- The quality of being colored.
- (music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes.
- Political tendency.
- (music) A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
- (linguistics) This when a consonant bleeds one of the qualities to the next vowel before the consonant disappears. This can describe PIE Laryngeal Theory.
Example Sentences
The party was not organized as an Irish political vehicle, but from the first it had a decidedly Gaelic coloration.
Numerous studies of family imprint upon offspring party attachment have shown that, when the father and mother agree politically, the children are likely to adopt the political coloration of their parents.
Word Forms
- colorations
- colorification
- colouration
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include coloring, discolouration, colouration, colouring, discoloration, color.
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