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Polychromatic :: Polychromatic (a.) Showing a variety, or a change, of colors..

Teinoscope :: Teinoscope (n.) An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope.

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

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..

Achromatically :: Achromatically (adv.) In an achromatic manner.

Doublet :: Doublet (a.) An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct..

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

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

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

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

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..

Achromaticity :: Achromaticity (n.) Achromatism.

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..

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

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

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..

Chromatically :: Chromatically (adv.) In a chromatic manner.

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

Dichromatism :: Dichromatism (n.) The state of being dichromatic.

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

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