coloration
The English word “coloration” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
Etymology
From French coloration, from Latin colōrātiō.
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