Meaning of CHROMATIC
| Pronunciation: | | krow'matik
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- [adj] being or having or characterized by hue
- [adj] (music) based on a scale consisting of 12 semitones; "a chromatic scale"
- [adj] able to refract light without spectral color separation; "chromatic lens"
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CHROMATIC is a 9 letter word that starts with C. |
| | Synonyms: | | amber, amethyst, aureate, avocado, azure, beige, blae, blood-red, blue, blue-green, blueish, bluish, bluish green, blushful, bottle-green, bright blue, bronze, bronzy, brown, brownish, brownish-orange, brownish-red, brownish-yellow, buff, canary, canary-yellow, caramel, caramel brown, carmine, carnation, cerise, cerulean, chartreuse, cherry, cherry-red, Chinese-red, chukker-brown, cinnabar, copper colored, coppery, coral, creamy, cress green, cresson, crimson, cyan, dark-blue, dark-brown, dark-green, dun, earthlike, fuscous, gilded, gilt, gold, golden, green, greenish, hazel, honey, jade, jade-green, khaki, lavender, light-blue, light-green, lilac, magenta, maroon, mauve, moss green, mosslike, mosstone, mossy, mouse-colored, mouselike, mousy, mummy-brown, musciform, ocher, ochre, olive, olive-brown, olive-drab, orange, orangish, peacock-blue, pea-green, pink, pinkish, powder blue, purple, purplish, red, reddish, rosaceous, rose, roseate, rose-red, rosy, ruby, ruby-red, ruddy, russet, rust, rusty, sage, sage-green, sapphire, scarlet, sea-green, sky-blue, snuff, snuff-brown, sorrel, stone, straw, tan, tangerine, tannish, taupe, tawny, teal, ultramarine, umber, vermilion, vermillion, violet, watercress, xanthous, yellow, yellow-brown, yellow-green, yellowish |
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| | Antonyms: | | achromatic, diatonic | | |
| | See Also: | | chestnut, colored, colorful, coloured, in color(p) | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
2. (Mus.) Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or
semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals
of the diatonic scale.
Note: The intermediate tones were formerly written and
printed in colors.
{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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| Glossary |
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| | Definition: | | one of the two strands of a replicated chromosome. Two chromatics are joined together by a centromere. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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