Definition of chromatic

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Chromatic (a.) 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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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..
Polychromic :: Polychromic (a.) Polychromatic.
Pleochromatic :: Pleochromatic (a.) Pleochroic.
Achromatism :: Achromatism (n.) The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity..
Photochromatic :: Photochromatic (a.) Of or pertaining to photochromy; produced by photochromy.
Dichromatic :: Dichromatic (a.) Having or exhibiting two colors.
Chromatical :: Chromatical (a.) Chromatic.
Chromatic :: Chromatic (a.) Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale..
Chromatically :: Chromatically (adv.) In a chromatic manner.
Achromatically :: Achromatically (adv.) In an achromatic manner.
Dichromatic :: Dichromatic (a.) Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects..
Chromatic :: Chromatic (a.) Relating to color, or to colors..
Scale :: Scale (n.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor..
Trichromatic :: Trichromatic (a.) Having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; -- said of certain birds and insects.
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..
Trichromatism :: Trichromatism (n.) The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic..
Lithochromatics :: Lithochromatics (n.) See Lithochromics.
Chromatics :: Chromatics (n.) The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.
Chromatrope :: Chromatrope (n.) An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.
Achroous :: Achroous (a.) Colorless; achromatic.
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