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Definition of Colouration

1. Noun. The timbre of a musical sound. "The recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"

2. Noun. Appearance with regard to color. "Her healthy coloration"

3. Noun. Choice and use of colors (as by an artist).

Definition of Colouration

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of coloration) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colouration

colour tube colour up colour vision defects colour vision deficiency colour wash colour wheel colour wheels colourability colourable colourableness

colourably colourado tick fever colourado tick fever virus colourant colourants colouration (current term) colourational colourations colourblind colourblindness

colourectal colourectal neoplasms colourectal surgery colourectitis colourectostomy coloured coloured vision coloureds colourer colourers

Literary usage of Colouration

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1905)
"No distinction is made as a rule between the metallic oxides from the point of view of the colouration they impart to glass or crystal. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Ferric chloride, transient violet colouration ... Sodium nitroprusside, in alkaline solutions an intense but somewhat fugitive violet colouration. ..."

3. Select Methods in Chemical Analysis: (chiefly Inorganic) by William Crookes (1886)
"Thus, with petalite alone, the lithium colouration is first produced; a slight sodium colouration is afterwards obtained ; whilst, with silver chloride, ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"A solution of colourless m-phenylenediamine (5 : 1000) gives an immediate violet colouration with a dilute solution of a gold salt. Molybdenum. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"On the colouration of Glass by Natural Solar and other Kadia- tions." By Sir WILLIAM CROOKES, D.Sc., FRS Received January 17,—Read January 26, 1905. ..."

6. Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science (1868)
"As the normal colouration No. 2, we have adopted that of the bronze called ... For the colouration No. 3, we have not been able to find a convenient alloy. ..."

7. Hunting the Elephant in Africa, and Other Recollections of Thirteenyears by Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1913)
"CHAPTER XXIII MIMICRY AND PROTECTIVE colouration IN INSECTS As regards the larger game, the more I consider the subject and the more I see of them, ..."

8. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"A blood-red colouration indicates a nitrocellulose product. ... Acid violet 4BN gives no colouration. Congo red in slightly alkaline solution dyes red. ..."

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