coloration vs coloring

coloration

noun
  • The quality of being colored. 

  • The act or art of coloring. 

  • Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes. 

  • A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation). 

  • Political tendency. 

coloring

noun
  • The appearance as to color. 

  • A disguise or discoloration. 

  • Any substance used to give color. 

  • An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color. 

  • An act or process which applies color. 

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