Usually means: Decoration added to enhance beauty.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. ornamentation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ornamentation: Merriam-Webster
  3. ornamentation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ornamentation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ornamentation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ornamentation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ornamentation, ornamentation: Wordnik
  8. ornamentation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ornamentation: Wiktionary
  10. ornamentation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ornamentation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ornamentation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ornamentation, ornamentation: Dictionary.com
  14. Ornamentation (music): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ornamentation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ornamentation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ornamentation: Rhymezone
  18. Ornamentation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ornamentation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. ornamentation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ornamentation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ornamentation: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ornamentation: Encyclopedia

(Note: See ornamentations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Decoration, adornment or embellishment.
noun:  The act or process of decorating etc.
noun:  (music) Short notes added to a composition to emphasize certain notes and to add style.

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