different between coloration vs colocation

English

Alternative forms

• colorification (dated)
• colouration (British)

Etymology

From French coloration, from Latin col?r?ti?.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

coloration (countable and uncountable, plural colorations)

1. The act or art of coloring.
2. The quality of being colored.
3. (music) A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
4. (music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes.
5. Political tendency.
   • 1968, Bernard Cosman, ?Robert Jack Huckshorn, Republican Politics (page 88)

     Numerous studies of family imprint upon offspring party attachment have shown that, when the father and mother agree politically, the children are likely to adopt the political coloration of their parents.

   • 2014, Kevin P. Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority: Updated Edition (page 175)

     The party was not organized as an Irish political vehicle, but from the first it had a decidedly Gaelic coloration.

Translations

See also

• diatonic
• chromatic
• coloratura

French

Pronunciation

Noun

coloration f (plural colorations)

1. color; coloring; coloration
   • 1827, Elisabeth Celnart, Art de la toilette

     On voit que je ne suis point au nombre des partisans de la coloration des cheveux.

     You can see that I'm not one of those people who's partial to a coloring of the hair

Further reading

• “coloration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

co- +? location

Noun

colocation (countable and uncountable, plural colocations)

1. Alternative spelling of collocation
2. Alternative spelling of co-location

Related terms

• colocate

French

Etymology

co- +? location

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.l?.ka.sj??/

Noun

colocation f (plural colocations)

1. renting of a house with another tenant

Related terms

• colocataire