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colorings

colorings is the plural of coloring.

Meaning of coloring

Noun

coloring (countable and uncountable, plural colorings)

  1. An act or process which applies color.
  2. Any substance used to give color.
    • Our cookies contain no artificial flavorings or colorings.
    Synonyms:
    pigment
  3. The appearance as to color.
    • 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.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
    Synonyms:
    coloration
  4. A disguise or discoloration.
  5. 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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Phrases with colorings

Questions about colorings

What is colorings the plural of?
Colorings is the plural of coloring.

Words near colorings in the dictionary

  1. coloring inside the lines
  2. coloring outside the lines
  3. coloring pencil
  4. coloring pencils
  5. coloring up
  6. colorings
  7. colorisation
  8. colorise
  9. colorised
  10. coloriser
  11. colorises

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