colorationn.

Brit.

/ˌkʌləˈreɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌkələˈreɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: 1600s– colouration, 1600s– coloration.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French coloration.

Etymology: < French coloration colour, colouring (1370 in Middle French), action of colouring (1503) < post-classical Latin coloration- , coloratio action of bronzing or tanning (the face) (4th cent.), action of colouring, production of colour (13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin colōrāt- , past participial stem of colōrāre colour v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish coloración (1493), Italian colorazione (a1406). Compare earlier colouring n.

†1. The restoration of the original colour of a precious metal. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > polishing > [noun] > polishing metal

burnishing1552

coloration1617

helling1738

colouring1875

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 340 Coloration is, whereby the perfect colour of golde, siluer, Philosophers lead, &c. obscured by any sulphurious vapour, is renouated and illustrated by maceration, frequent ablution, in sharpe liquour, etc.

1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Coloration, the brightening of gold or silver.

1828 Q. Jrnl. Sci., Lit. & Art 26 441 Colouration of Gold.—The following mixtures arc recommended by M. Castellani, for this purpose:—Water, 150 parts; muriatic acid [etc.].

a. The natural or distinctive colouring of an animal or plant; (also) †an instance of this (obsolete).rare in 18th cent.protective coloration: see the first element.

ΚΠ

a1626 F. Bacon Sylva Sylvarum (1627) §506 Amongst Curiosities, I shall place Colouration, though it be somewhat better: For Beauty in Flowers is their Preheminence.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 150 The different colorations..of some of these flowers.

1791 W. Nicholson tr. J. A. C. Chaptal Elements Chem. III. iii. xii. 162 The coloration of plants is designed to reflect the light more vividly.

1862 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1861 199 This pattern of coloration is mostly confined to the young bird.

1894 R. Lydekker Hand-bk. Marsupialia & Monotremata 27 Bennett's Wallaby..has longer and thicker fur and a more sombre tone of coloration than the typical form.

1973 T. G. Howarth South's Brit. Butterflies 27 The coloration of this butterfly is somewhat dingy.

2009 J. A. Coyne Why Evol. is True iv. 101 A famous example of convergence is the camouflaging white coloration shared by diverse Arctic animals.

b. The way in which something is coloured; = colouring n. 3a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [noun]

colouring?1533

coloration1626

tonea1825

colourization1825

tintage1859

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §399 (heading) Experiment solitary touching the Coloration of black and tawny Moors.

1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia xxiii. 118 The Earth glowing with primary Colours only... This unmixed Coloration of Objects, from a vertical Situation only, to be seen without Refraction, is a new singular and pleasing Phenomenon.

1873 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 190 The coloration of Mars is not owing to its atmosphere.

1953 Hesperia 22 268 The coloration of the marble within the stroke suggests that the stroke was ancient.

2001 V. Prashad Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting i. 11 Varna may refer to something akin to feudal colors or standards, and not to the coloration or pigmentation of the skin.

c. figurative. The characteristic tone identified in an abstract quality, body, etc.; character, tone; nature, quality. Cf. colour n.¹ 11.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute

i-cundeOE

kindOE

thingOE

quality1340

virtue1340

assizea1375

propertyc1390

principlea1398

conditionc1460

faculty1490

predicatea1513

epitheton1547

passion1570

propriety1584

affection1588

attribute1603

qualification1616

appropriate1618

intimacy1641

bedighting1674

belonger1674

cleaver1674

interiority1701

internal property1751

predicable1785

coloration1799

internality1839

1799 tr. I. Kant Ess. & Treat. II. 10 Mimic joking and familiarity heighten the coloration of the beautiful in this feeling.

1899 Proc. Louisiana Bar Assoc. 1898–9 36 The Louisiana lawyer is primarily a civilian, taking his principles from the Roman storehouse,..passing them, however, through the alembic of sturdy American common sense and avoiding by his knowledge of comparative jurisprudence the pitfalls of a too keen refinement, or the coloration of a society wherein those distinctions mean more than here.

1924 D. Brewster & J. A. Burrell Dead Reckonings viii. 189 When Edith dies, Anne briefly relents, but presently moves much closer to God and takes on a protective coloration of sanctity.

1950 J. Steinberg Verdict of Three Decades iii. 413 The war suddenly changed in coloration.

1976 N. Postman Crazy Talk 39 When you walk into a church or a ball park or a hospital or the stock exchange, you become aware at once of a particular coloration to the place and to the events that are occurring there.

2003 I. Chang Chinese in Amer. iii. 30 The term would take on a different coloration in the 1840s.

3. Chemistry and Biology. A change in colour resulting from a chemical reaction or a physical change.

ΚΠ

1665 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια (ed. 2) Introd. 37 Also by humectation, tincture or repeated infusion. frixion. assation. extinction. aromatization. coloration. mollition. induration.

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Colorisation, Coloration, [in Pharmacy] the changes of colour which bodies undergo, by the various operations either of nature or art, as by calcinations, coctions, &c.

1800 W. Nicholson tr. A. F. Fourcroy Elements Chem. & Nat. Hist. (ed. 5) I. 404 Exposed to the rays of the sun, it becomes of a deeper colour... This coloration is accompanied with a disengagement of vital air.

1846 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 136 137 A liquid which, being over-saturated with sulphuric acid and heated, causes a brownish coloration round a crystal of sulphate of iron.

1909 E. I. Lewis Elements Org. Chem. xxiv. 190 Phloroglucinol gives a violet colouration with ferric chloride.

2000 Isis 91 171/2 Nerve cells had been observed by means of carmine or hematoxiline coloration.

a. Art. The application or effect of colour in painting or decorative art; characteristic manner or style of colouring.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > general effect or scheme

colour1661

colouring1706

natural colour1720

coloration1778

palette1782

tonality1866

scheme1884

colour tone1896

1778 Def. Theophilus Lindsey iii. 122 A monster, depainted on paper, with all the bold and prominent effect of technical outlines, metaphysical drapery, and animated coloration, is not less a monster.

1887 Athenæum 31 Dec. 900/2 The wealthy coloration and tonality of Walker.

1931 G. Mason Columbus came Late xiii. 269 For coloration no pottery ever made in any part of the world has been so rich as the pottery of the ancient Nascans.

1991 Stained Glass Fall 188 The swirling, subtle and elusive coloration of favrile glass is akin to Japanese water color.

2001 Independent 10 Apr. ii. 12/4 There is movement and coloration—an artist's eye at work.

b. Architecture. Decorative colouring on the exterior of a building; the application or use of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > colouring

coloration1861

1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. vii. 250 This movement for ‘polychromatic architecture’, or for ‘constructive coloration’.

1862 Parthenon 26 July 400 Every trace of ‘coloration’ has disappeared; although this must have been lavishly employed.

1919 F. B. Tarbell Hist. Greek Art iii. 106 The coloration of the building was far from total. Plain surfaces, as walls,were unpainted.

1965 P. Collins Changing Ideals in Mod. Archit., 1750–1950 xi. 111 There was nothing novel about polychromatic adornments inside buildings, and historians who have dealt indiscriminately with both interior and exterior coloration overlook the main issue at stake.

2000 Union Leader (Manchester) (Nexis) 2 Nov. a16 The Kimball House has many of the characteristics of Gilbert's work: the..window bands, coloration and details, [etc.].

5. The action or process of colouring something; the imparting of (artificial) colour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > colouring > [noun]

staininga1382

colouring?a1425

littingc1440

tincturing1616

colourishing1646

colourization1825

coloration1837

tinting1853

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. II. vii. vi. 331 The most serious objection to the increase of the aperture of object-glasses, was the coloration of the image produced, in consequence of the unequal refrangibility of differently colored rays.

1891 E. R. Emerson Masks, Heads, & Faces iv. 100 White was at first used sparingly, change in method of coloration coming in somewhere during the fifth and fourth centuries before our era.

1954 T. Vickerstaff Physical Chem. Dyeing (ed. 2) i. 12 In the early history of dyeing the colouration of cotton presented considerable difficulty.

1971 R. L. M. Allen Colour Chem. viii. 115 These Soluble Blues are now little used for textile coloration, but are applied to leather, paper and..in printing inks.

2009 J.-N. Berte in E. B. Faulkner & R. J. Schwartz High Performance Pigments (rev. ed.) iv. 34 Cerium sulfide pigments have been developed primarily for the coloration of plastics.

6. The effect on sound quality or reproduction caused by the way a loudspeaker, microphone, etc., is constructed, or by environmental factors.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > quality of reproduced sound

scratch1908

quality1913

surface noise1914

coloration1925

ambient noise1926

wow1932

pre-echo1935

hangover1940

presence1950

ambience1953

naturalness1966

overhang1971

1925 Wireless World 4 Nov. 606/1 This accounts for local coloration in acoustic reproduction, apart from the influence of room resonances, echo, and the like.

1935 Observer 6 Jan. 25/6 A large proportion of the higher notes and harmonics are obliterated and the loud-speaker has all sorts of artificial colouration.

1961 M. L. Gayford Acoustical Techniques & Transducers iii. 95 The effect of these..may add considerable transient ‘coloration’ to the reproduction of any normal programme material.

1984 Which? Apr. 178/2 Coloration is generally a bad thing because the reproduction isn't as accurate as it might be—though some people may still find it quite pleasant to listen to.

2010 M. Kleiner et al. Worship Space Acoustics x. 172 (caption) The boundary microphone is used on large surfaces to avoid coloration by reflected sound.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	coloration
释义	colorationn. Brit. /ˌkʌləˈreɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌkələˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: 1600s– colouration, 1600s– coloration. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French coloration. Etymology: < French coloration colour, colouring (1370 in Middle French), action of colouring (1503) < post-classical Latin coloration- , coloratio action of bronzing or tanning (the face) (4th cent.), action of colouring, production of colour (13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin colōrāt- , past participial stem of colōrāre colour v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish coloración (1493), Italian colorazione (a1406). Compare earlier colouring n. †1. The restoration of the original colour of a precious metal. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > polishing > [noun] > polishing metal burnishing1552 coloration1617 helling1738 colouring1875 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 340 Coloration is, whereby the perfect colour of golde, siluer, Philosophers lead, &c. obscured by any sulphurious vapour, is renouated and illustrated by maceration, frequent ablution, in sharpe liquour, etc. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Coloration, the brightening of gold or silver. 1828 Q. Jrnl. Sci., Lit. & Art 26 441 Colouration of Gold.—The following mixtures arc recommended by M. Castellani, for this purpose:—Water, 150 parts; muriatic acid [etc.]. 2. a. The natural or distinctive colouring of an animal or plant; (also) †an instance of this (obsolete).rare in 18th cent.protective coloration: see the first element. ΚΠ a1626 F. Bacon Sylva Sylvarum (1627) §506 Amongst Curiosities, I shall place Colouration, though it be somewhat better: For Beauty in Flowers is their Preheminence. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 150 The different colorations..of some of these flowers. 1791 W. Nicholson tr. J. A. C. Chaptal Elements Chem. III. iii. xii. 162 The coloration of plants is designed to reflect the light more vividly. 1862 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1861 199 This pattern of coloration is mostly confined to the young bird. 1894 R. Lydekker Hand-bk. Marsupialia & Monotremata 27 Bennett's Wallaby..has longer and thicker fur and a more sombre tone of coloration than the typical form. 1973 T. G. Howarth South's Brit. Butterflies 27 The coloration of this butterfly is somewhat dingy. 2009 J. A. Coyne Why Evol. is True iv. 101 A famous example of convergence is the camouflaging white coloration shared by diverse Arctic animals. b. The way in which something is coloured; = colouring n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [noun] colouring?1533 coloration1626 tonea1825 colourization1825 tintage1859 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §399 (heading) Experiment solitary touching the Coloration of black and tawny Moors. 1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia xxiii. 118 The Earth glowing with primary Colours only... This unmixed Coloration of Objects, from a vertical Situation only, to be seen without Refraction, is a new singular and pleasing Phenomenon. 1873 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 190 The coloration of Mars is not owing to its atmosphere. 1953 Hesperia 22 268 The coloration of the marble within the stroke suggests that the stroke was ancient. 2001 V. Prashad Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting i. 11 Varna may refer to something akin to feudal colors or standards, and not to the coloration or pigmentation of the skin. c. figurative. The characteristic tone identified in an abstract quality, body, etc.; character, tone; nature, quality. Cf. colour n.¹ 11. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute i-cundeOE kindOE thingOE quality1340 virtue1340 assizea1375 propertyc1390 principlea1398 conditionc1460 faculty1490 predicatea1513 epitheton1547 passion1570 propriety1584 affection1588 attribute1603 qualification1616 appropriate1618 intimacy1641 bedighting1674 belonger1674 cleaver1674 interiority1701 internal property1751 predicable1785 coloration1799 internality1839 1799 tr. I. Kant Ess. & Treat. II. 10 Mimic joking and familiarity heighten the coloration of the beautiful in this feeling. 1899 Proc. Louisiana Bar Assoc. 1898–9 36 The Louisiana lawyer is primarily a civilian, taking his principles from the Roman storehouse,..passing them, however, through the alembic of sturdy American common sense and avoiding by his knowledge of comparative jurisprudence the pitfalls of a too keen refinement, or the coloration of a society wherein those distinctions mean more than here. 1924 D. Brewster & J. A. Burrell Dead Reckonings viii. 189 When Edith dies, Anne briefly relents, but presently moves much closer to God and takes on a protective coloration of sanctity. 1950 J. Steinberg Verdict of Three Decades iii. 413 The war suddenly changed in coloration. 1976 N. Postman Crazy Talk 39 When you walk into a church or a ball park or a hospital or the stock exchange, you become aware at once of a particular coloration to the place and to the events that are occurring there. 2003 I. Chang Chinese in Amer. iii. 30 The term would take on a different coloration in the 1840s. 3. Chemistry and Biology. A change in colour resulting from a chemical reaction or a physical change. ΚΠ 1665 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια (ed. 2) Introd. 37 Also by humectation, tincture or repeated infusion. frixion. assation. extinction. aromatization. coloration. mollition. induration. 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Colorisation, Coloration, [in Pharmacy] the changes of colour which bodies undergo, by the various operations either of nature or art, as by calcinations, coctions, &c. 1800 W. Nicholson tr. A. F. Fourcroy Elements Chem. & Nat. Hist. (ed. 5) I. 404 Exposed to the rays of the sun, it becomes of a deeper colour... This coloration is accompanied with a disengagement of vital air. 1846 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 136 137 A liquid which, being over-saturated with sulphuric acid and heated, causes a brownish coloration round a crystal of sulphate of iron. 1909 E. I. Lewis Elements Org. Chem. xxiv. 190 Phloroglucinol gives a violet colouration with ferric chloride. 2000 Isis 91 171/2 Nerve cells had been observed by means of carmine or hematoxiline coloration. 4. a. Art. The application or effect of colour in painting or decorative art; characteristic manner or style of colouring. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > general effect or scheme colour1661 colouring1706 natural colour1720 coloration1778 palette1782 tonality1866 scheme1884 colour tone1896 1778 Def. Theophilus Lindsey iii. 122 A monster, depainted on paper, with all the bold and prominent effect of technical outlines, metaphysical drapery, and animated coloration, is not less a monster. 1887 Athenæum 31 Dec. 900/2 The wealthy coloration and tonality of Walker. 1931 G. Mason Columbus came Late xiii. 269 For coloration no pottery ever made in any part of the world has been so rich as the pottery of the ancient Nascans. 1991 Stained Glass Fall 188 The swirling, subtle and elusive coloration of favrile glass is akin to Japanese water color. 2001 Independent 10 Apr. ii. 12/4 There is movement and coloration—an artist's eye at work. b. Architecture. Decorative colouring on the exterior of a building; the application or use of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > colouring coloration1861 1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. vii. 250 This movement for ‘polychromatic architecture’, or for ‘constructive coloration’. 1862 Parthenon 26 July 400 Every trace of ‘coloration’ has disappeared; although this must have been lavishly employed. 1919 F. B. Tarbell Hist. Greek Art iii. 106 The coloration of the building was far from total. Plain surfaces, as walls,were unpainted. 1965 P. Collins Changing Ideals in Mod. Archit., 1750–1950 xi. 111 There was nothing novel about polychromatic adornments inside buildings, and historians who have dealt indiscriminately with both interior and exterior coloration overlook the main issue at stake. 2000 Union Leader (Manchester) (Nexis) 2 Nov. a16 The Kimball House has many of the characteristics of Gilbert's work: the..window bands, coloration and details, [etc.]. 5. The action or process of colouring something; the imparting of (artificial) colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > [noun] staininga1382 colouring?a1425 littingc1440 tincturing1616 colourishing1646 colourization1825 coloration1837 tinting1853 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. II. vii. vi. 331 The most serious objection to the increase of the aperture of object-glasses, was the coloration of the image produced, in consequence of the unequal refrangibility of differently colored rays. 1891 E. R. Emerson Masks, Heads, & Faces iv. 100 White was at first used sparingly, change in method of coloration coming in somewhere during the fifth and fourth centuries before our era. 1954 T. Vickerstaff Physical Chem. Dyeing (ed. 2) i. 12 In the early history of dyeing the colouration of cotton presented considerable difficulty. 1971 R. L. M. Allen Colour Chem. viii. 115 These Soluble Blues are now little used for textile coloration, but are applied to leather, paper and..in printing inks. 2009 J.-N. Berte in E. B. Faulkner & R. J. Schwartz High Performance Pigments (rev. ed.) iv. 34 Cerium sulfide pigments have been developed primarily for the coloration of plastics. 6. The effect on sound quality or reproduction caused by the way a loudspeaker, microphone, etc., is constructed, or by environmental factors. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > quality of reproduced sound scratch1908 quality1913 surface noise1914 coloration1925 ambient noise1926 wow1932 pre-echo1935 hangover1940 presence1950 ambience1953 naturalness1966 overhang1971 1925 Wireless World 4 Nov. 606/1 This accounts for local coloration in acoustic reproduction, apart from the influence of room resonances, echo, and the like. 1935 Observer 6 Jan. 25/6 A large proportion of the higher notes and harmonics are obliterated and the loud-speaker has all sorts of artificial colouration. 1961 M. L. Gayford Acoustical Techniques & Transducers iii. 95 The effect of these..may add considerable transient ‘coloration’ to the reproduction of any normal programme material. 1984 Which? Apr. 178/2 Coloration is generally a bad thing because the reproduction isn't as accurate as it might be—though some people may still find it quite pleasant to listen to. 2010 M. Kleiner et al. Worship Space Acoustics x. 172 (caption) The boundary microphone is used on large surfaces to avoid coloration by reflected sound. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1617
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