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Achromatic :: Achromatic (a.) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue.

Lithochromatics :: Lithochromatics (n.) See Lithochromics.

Register :: Register (v. i.) To correspond in relative position; as, two pages, columns, etc. , register when the corresponding parts fall in the same line, or when line falls exactly upon line in reverse pages, or (as in chromatic printing) where the various colors of the design are printed consecutively, and perfect adjustment of parts is necessary..

Key :: Key (n.) A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as sharp four, flat seven, etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key..

Monochromatic :: Monochromatic (a.) Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only..

Isochromatic :: Isochromatic (a.) Having the same color; connecting parts having the same color, as lines drawn through certain points in experiments on the chromatic effects of polarized light in crystals..

Polychromic :: Polychromic (a.) Polychromatic.

Chromatic :: Chromatic (a.) Relating to color, or to colors..

Photochromatic :: Photochromatic (a.) Of or pertaining to photochromy; produced by photochromy.

Dichromatic :: Dichromatic (a.) Having or exhibiting two colors.

Achromatic :: Achromatic (a.) Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.

Aberration :: Aberration (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus..

Enharmonical :: Enharmonical (a.) Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate..

Achroous :: Achroous (a.) Colorless; achromatic.

Achromatize :: Achromatize (v. t.) To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Trichromatism :: Trichromatism (n.) The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic..

Achromatism :: Achromatism (n.) The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity..

Amphiaster :: Amphiaster (n.) The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle..

Chromatic :: Chromatic (a.) Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale..

Pleochromatic :: Pleochromatic (a.) Pleochroic.

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