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coloring

verb

Meaning

  1. To give something color.
  2. To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
  3. (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
  4. To affect without completely changing.
  5. To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
  6. To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
  7. An act or process which applies color.
  8. Any substance used to give color.
  9. The appearance as to color.
  10. A disguise or discoloration.
  11. An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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