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coloring

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coloring

  1. present participle and gerund of color

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coloring (countable and uncountable, plural colorings)

  1. An act or process which applies color.
  2. Any substance used to give color.
    Synonym: pigment
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  3. The appearance as to color.
    Synonym: coloration
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      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.
  4. A disguise or discoloration.
  5. (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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