Maculation

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Maculation \Mac"u*la"tion\, n. [L. maculatio.]
     The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish; a macula. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  maculation
       n 1: a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a
            leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin
            ice"; "a fleck of red" [syn: {spot}, {speckle}, {dapple},
             {patch}, {fleck}]
       2: the act of spotting or staining something [syn: {staining},
          {spotting}]