Chromatic

3 definitions found

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

  Chromatic \Chro*mat"ic\, a. [L. chromaticus, Gr. ?, suited for
     color, fr. ?, ?, color; akin to ? color, ? skin, color of the
     skin.]
     1. Relating to color, or to colors.
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     2. (Mus.) Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or
        semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals
        of the diatonic scale.
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     Note: The intermediate tones were formerly written and
           printed in colors.
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     {Chromatic aberration}. (Opt.) See {Aberration}, {4}.
  
     {Chromatic printing}, printing from type or blocks covered
        with inks of various colors.
  
     {Chromatic scale} (Mus.), the scale consisting of thirteen
        tones, including the eight scale tones and the five
        intermediate tones.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chromatic
       adj 1: able to refract light without spectral color separation;
              "chromatic lens"
       2: based on a scale consisting of 12 semitones; "a chromatic
          scale" [ant: {diatonic}]
       3: being or having or characterized by hue [ant: {achromatic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "chromatic":
     cold, colorific, coloring, cool, dichromatic, enharmonic, glowing,
     harmonious, many-colored, matching, medley, monochromatic,
     monochrome, monochromic, motley, parti-colored, pigmentary,
     polychromatic, prismatic, rainbow, semitonic, spectral, tinctorial,
     tingent, tonal, tonic, toning, variegated, warm