MACULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maculation mean? 

• MACULATION (noun)
  The noun MACULATION has 2 senses:

1. a small contrasting part of something

2. the act of spotting or staining something

  Familiarity information: MACULATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MACULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small contrasting part of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dapple; fleck; maculation; patch; speckle; spot

Context example:

a fleck of red

Hypernyms ("maculation" is a kind of...):

marking (a pattern of marks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "maculation"):

pinpoint; speck (a very small spot)

nebula ((pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea)

splash (a patch of bright color)

fret; worn spot (a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion)

plaque ((pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body)

macula; macule (a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases)

mock sun; parhelion; sundog (a bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals)

macula; sunspot (a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field)

facula; solar facula (a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots)

facula (a bright spot on a planet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of spotting or staining something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

maculation; spotting; staining

Hypernyms ("maculation" is a kind of...):

dirtying; soiling; soilure (the act of soiling something)

Derivation:

maculate (spot, stain, or pollute)

maculate (make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically)