chromatic

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chro·mat·ic

(krō-măt'ĭk) pronunciation

adj.

1. Relating to colors or color.
2. Relating to color perceived to have a saturation greater than zero.
Music.
1. Of, relating to, or based on the chromatic scale.
2. Relating to chords or harmonies based on nonharmonic tones.

[Greek khrōmatikos, from khrōma, khrōmat-, color.]

chromatically chro·mat'i·cal·ly adv.
chromaticism chro·mat'i·cism (-sĭz'əm) n.

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(from Gk. Chrōmatikos : ‘coloured’)

Based on an octave of 12 semitones, as opposed to a seven-note DIATONIC scale. A chromatic scale consists of an ascending or descending line of semitones. An instrument is said to be chromatic if throughout all or most of its compass it can produce all the semitones.

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Motion by half steps; or pitches used outside of the diatonic scale in which they normally occur.

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1. pertaining to color; stainable with dyes.
2. pertaining to chromatin.

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Harmony, Melody, and Structure - chromatic: (adj) containing all twelve half steps in octave

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Chromatic, a word ultimately derived from the Greek noun χρῶμα (khrṓma), which means "complexion" or "color", and then from the Greek adjective χρωματικός (khrōmatikós; "colored"), may refer to:

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In music:

Chromatic scale, the western-tempered twelve-tone scale.
Chromatic chord, chords built from tones chromatically altered from the native scale of the musical composition.
Chromaticism, the use of chromatic scales, chords, and modulations.
Total chromatic, the use of all twelve pitches of the chromatic scale in tonal music.
Chromatic fantasia, a specific form of fantasia originating in sixteenth century Europe.
The Chromatic button accordion.
The chromatic harmonica.
Chromatic genus, a genus of divisions of the tetrachord characterized by an upper interval of a minor third.
Diatonic and chromatic, as a property of several structures, genres, and other features in music, often contrasted with diatonic.

In optics, vision, and color:

The science of color is sometimes called chromatics.
Chromaticity, the quality of a color as determined by its "purity" and dominant wavelength.
Chromatic aberration, departures from perfect imaging in optics systems due to dispersion.
Chromatic dispersion, the dispersion of light due to differing refraction index for different wavelengths.
RG Chromaticity, a two-dimensional color space in which there is no color intensity information.
Chromatic adaptation, the ability for some organisms to perceive objects similarly in varying lighting conditions.

In mathematics:

Chromatic polynomial, a polynomial which encodes the number of different ways to vertex color the graph using n colors.
Chromatic numbering.
Chromatic index.
Acyclic chromatic number.
Strong chromatic number.
Fractional chromatic number.
Vertex chromatic number.

Other:

Von Luschan's chromatic scale, a method for classifying skin color.
Chromatic dragons - in Dungeons & Dragons
chromatic (programmer) - a Perl programmer and writer

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - kromatisk, farverig, som kan farves

Nederlands (Dutch)
chromatisch, accident (muziek)

Français (French)
adj. - (Phys, Art, Mus) chromatique

Deutsch (German)
adj. - chromatisch, Farben-

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - χρωματικός

Italiano (Italian)
cromatica, cromatico

Português (Portuguese)
n. - cromático (m)
adj. - cromático

Русский (Russian)
хроматический, цветной

Español (Spanish)
adj. - cromático, a o de colores

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - färg-, kromatisk

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
彩色的, 染色性的, 着色的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 彩色的, 染色性的, 著色的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 색체의, 염색성의, 반음계의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 色の, 色の付いた, 半音階の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) لوني‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮כרומטי, צבעוני‬

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