coloration

Plural: colorations

Noun

• the timbre of a musical sound
• appearance with regard to color
  • "her healthy coloration"
• choice and use of colors (as by an artist)
• The act or art of coloring.
• The quality of being colored.
• A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
• Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes.
• Political tendency.
• This when a consonant bleeds one of the qualities to the next vowel before the consonant disappears. This can describe PIE Laryngeal Theory.

Synonyms

color, colour, colouration

Related Words

chromatic, coloratura, diatonic