Coloration or colouration may refer to:
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Color, the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others, along with any variation, quality, or property thereof
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Animal coloration, topic of research regarding animals' adaptive appearance
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Cryptic coloration or camouflage, making animals or objects hard to see or disguising them
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Color gradient, a range of position-dependent colors
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Coloration effect, one of the phenomenal effects of watercolor illusions
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Vowel coloration, an account for historical changes in vowel sounds according to Laryngeal theory
In music
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Color (medieval music), four distinct senses in medieval music theory:
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Color (or colour), a repeating sequence of pitches found in compositions of the 13th and 14th centuries
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Coloration, a way of showing 3:2 rhythms in Mensural_notation#Proportions_and_colorations from the early 14c
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More rarely 14/15c writers use color to describe the chromatic genus or the intervals produced by musica ficta; see chromaticism
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Coloration or coloratura, ornamentation with many fast 'black' notes, the primary use of term from the 16c on
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Colorist (music), descriptive term for German 16c keyboard composers renowned for use of coloratura or diminution
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Key coloration, characteristics of different keys in unequal tuning systems
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A Colour Symphony, Op. 24 (1922), composition by Arthur Bliss
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Chromesthesia, a synesthetic association of sounds and colors
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Chromaticism, the extension of harmony beyond the diatonic system, usually in the context of the end of the common practice period
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Colouration, tendency of various parts of a loudspeaker to carry on moving when the signal ceases
See also
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Color (disambiguation)
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Gradation (disambiguation)
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Color (law), semblance or implication of a right or authority
