Decoration may refer to:

  • Decorative arts
  • A house painter and decorator's craft
  • An act or object intended to increase the beauty of a person, room, etc.

Art

  • Cake decorating, the art of making a cake visually interesting
  • Christmas decoration, festive decorations used at Christmas time
  • Decorations (John Ireland), a set of three pieces for piano solo composed in 1912–13 by John Ireland
  • In-glaze decoration, a method of decorating ceramics - decoration applied before firing
  • On-glaze decoration, a method of decorating ceramics - decoration applied after glazing
  • In-mould decoration, a method of decorating moulded plastics
  • Interior design, the internal finishing of a building

Computing

  • Decorator pattern, a design pattern used in object-oriented programming
  • Link decoration, the style of visual appearance of hyperlinks
  • Name decoration, a technique used in most programming languages
  • Syntax decoration, a form of enriched text presentation or syntax highlighting
  • Text decoration, text attribution with styles like italics, boldface, underlines
  • USB decoration, a decorative device that uses the Universal Serial Bus connector
  • Window decoration, in computing are the window's visual elements drawn by a window manager

Other uses

  • State decoration, an object such as a medal or insignia that is awarded to certain people
  • Web decoration, conspicuous silk structure in the webs of some spiders

See also

  • Adornment
  • Decorator (disambiguation)
  • Decorate (disambiguation)