1 [U] the use of colour, pencil lines, etc. to give an impression of light and shade in a picture or to emphasize areas of a map, diagram, etc.
2 (shadings) [pl.] slight differences that exist between different aspects of the same thing:
the shadings of opinion found among church leaders
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