1. shading - Noun
2. shading - Verb
of Shade
Act or process of making a shade.
That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.
Source: Webster's dictionaryGovernment is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. John Updike
Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading. Leonardo da Vinci
Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading. Ellsworth Kelly
Through the act of eating, the fellow conspirators were transformed into a "we," a gathering which in Greek means ecclesia. Further, they believed that the "we" is also somebody's "I"; they were nourished by shading into the "I" of the Incarnate Word. Ivan Illich
Accounts of Krähmer's playing, which report his "diminishing and swelling the notes, up to an almost unbelievable loudness" imply a developed technique using shading and alternate fingerings, far beyond a purely amateur culture of house music. Source: Internet
All shading algorithms need to account for distance from light and the normal vector of the shaded object with respect to the incident direction of light. Source: Internet