coloring vs hue

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. 

hue

noun
  • A color, or shade of color; tint; dye. 

  • A character; aspect. 

  • The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta. 

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