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