coloring
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editAudio (General American): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
- Homophone: culler
- Hyphenation: col‧or
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editcoloring
- present participle and gerund of color
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editcoloring (countable and uncountable, plural colorings)
- An act or process which applies color.
- Any substance used to give color.
- Synonym: pigment
- Our cookies contain no artificial flavorings or colorings.
- The appearance as to color.
- Synonym: coloration
- 1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?" — A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 8:
- The Rolands, both U.S.-educated lawyers with faculty positions in the national law school, are olive skinned, with the coloring of some Italians or Sephardic Jews.
- A disguise or discoloration.
- (graph theory) An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.
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editact or process
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appearance
disguise or discoloration
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