# Coloration

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'''Coloration''' or '''colouration''' may refer to:

* [Color](/source/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
* [Animal coloration](/source/Animal_coloration), topic of research regarding animals' adaptive appearance
* [Cryptic coloration](/source/Cryptic_coloration) or camouflage, making animals or objects hard to see or disguising them
* [Color gradient](/source/Color_gradient), a range of position-dependent colors
* Coloration effect, one of the phenomenal effects of [watercolor illusion](/source/watercolor_illusion)s
* Vowel coloration, an account for historical changes in vowel sounds according to [Laryngeal theory](/source/Laryngeal_theory)

==In music==
* [Color (medieval music)](/source/Color_(medieval_music)), four distinct senses in medieval music theory:
**Color (or colour), a repeating sequence of pitches found in [Isorhythm](/source/Isorhythm)ic compositions of the 13th and 14th centuries
**Coloration, a way of showing 3:2 rhythms in [Mensural_notation#Proportions_and_colorations](/source/Mensural_notation) from the early 14c
**More rarely 14/15c writers use color to describe the [chromatic genus](/source/Genus_(music)) or the intervals produced by [musica ficta](/source/musica_ficta); see chromaticism
**Coloration or [coloratura](/source/coloratura), ornamentation with many fast 'black' notes, the primary use of term from the 16c on
*[Colorist (music)](/source/Colorist_(music)), descriptive term for German 16c keyboard composers renowned for use of coloratura or [diminution](/source/diminution)
* [Key coloration](/source/Key_coloration), characteristics of different keys in unequal tuning systems
*''[A Colour Symphony](/source/A_Colour_Symphony), Op. 24'' (1922), composition by [Arthur Bliss](/source/Arthur_Bliss)
*[Chromesthesia](/source/Chromesthesia), a synesthetic association of sounds and colors
*[Chromaticism](/source/Chromaticism), the extension of harmony beyond the diatonic system, usually in the context of the end of the [common practice period](/source/common_practice_period)
*[Colouration](/source/Loudspeaker_measurement), tendency of various parts of a loudspeaker to carry on moving when the signal ceases

==See also==
* [Color (disambiguation)](/source/Color_(disambiguation))
* [Gradation (disambiguation)](/source/Gradation_(disambiguation))
* [Color (law)](/source/Color_(law)), semblance or implication of a right or authority

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