COLOURATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colouration mean? 

• COLOURATION (noun)
  The noun COLOURATION has 3 senses:

1. the timbre of a musical sound

2. appearance with regard to color

3. choice and use of colors (as by an artist)

  Familiarity information: COLOURATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLOURATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The timbre of a musical sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

color; coloration; colour; colouration

Context example:

the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music

Hypernyms ("colouration" is a kind of...):

quality; timber; timbre; tone ((music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Appearance with regard to color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

coloration; colouration

Context example:

her healthy coloration

Hypernyms ("colouration" is a kind of...):

color; coloring; colour; colouring (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colouration"):

hair coloring (coloring of the hair)

pigmentation (coloration of living tissues by pigment)

depigmentation (absence or loss of pigmentation (or less than normal pigmentation) in the skin or hair)

protective coloration (coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Choice and use of colors (as by an artist)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

coloration; colouration

Hypernyms ("colouration" is a kind of...):

choice; option; pick; selection (the act of choosing or selecting)