coloration vs tint

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. 

tint

noun
  • A color considered with reference to other very similar colors. 

  • A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade) 

  • A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines. 

  • A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant. 

  • A slight coloring. 

abbrev
  • it is not; it isn't; 'tisn't; it'sn't 

verb
  • To shade, to color. 

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