colouration

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Lizards bob their heads up and down to communicate, and some squid do it by regulating the colouration of their skin cells.

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Quick take

the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of colouration gathered in one view.

noun

the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"

noun

appearance with regard to color; "her healthy coloration"

noun

choice and use of colors (as by an artist)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for colouration.

noun

the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"

noun

appearance with regard to color; "her healthy coloration"

noun

choice and use of colors (as by an artist)

Example sentences

Lizards bob their heads up and down to communicate, and some squid do it by regulating the colouration of their skin cells.

I found this [1], but it seems the colouration is due to a different mechanism not involving metals.

The viewing angle is so poor that if I'm watching a movie on it, there is nowhere I can position it so that I don't get funny colouration on the blacks.

The processed stuff is packed with all kinds of sugar, preservatives, flavor enhancer and colouration which might be the cause for the higher rates of colon cancer.

Actually wanting artefacts and colouration is more of a recent phenomenon.

Here we match variation in striping of equid species and subspecies to geographic range overlap of environmental variables in multifactor models controlling for phylogeny to simultaneously test the five major explanations for this infamous colouration.

That said, it appears they are in fact evolving:> "Some birds make use of melanin for coloration, but they also make use of the precursor to melanin as an antioxidant, which may provide some measure of defence against the ionizing radiation," said Mousseau.> In a study, he found that those birds that seemed to show less genetic damage ended up being a bit lighter coloured.> "It looks like there's a tradeoff in the use of this antioxidant between colouration and defence against oxidative stress or ionizing radiation.