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

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..

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..

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

Pleochromatic :: Pleochromatic (a.) Pleochroic.

Is- :: Is- () A prefix or combining form, indicating identity, or equality; the same numerical value; as in isopod, isomorphous, isochromatic..

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

Chromatical :: Chromatical (a.) Chromatic.

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.

Achromaticity :: Achromaticity (n.) Achromatism.

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

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

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

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

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

Chromatics :: Chromatics (n.) The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.

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..

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