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chromatic

[ kroh-mat-ik, kruh- ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to color or colors.
  2. Music.
    1. involving a modification of the normal scale by the use of accidentals.
    2. progressing by semitones, especially to a tone having the same letter name, as in C to C sharp.


chromatic

/ krəˈmætɪk /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characterized by a colour or colours
  2. music
    1. involving the sharpening or flattening of notes or the use of such notes in chords and harmonic progressions
    2. of or relating to the chromatic scale or an instrument capable of producing it

      a chromatic harmonica

    3. of or relating to chromaticism Compare diatonic
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


chromatic

/ krō-mătĭk /

  1. Relating to color or colors.


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Derived Forms

  • chroˈmaticism, noun
  • chroˈmatically, adverb
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Other Words From

  • chro·mati·cal·ly adverb
  • nonchro·matic adjective
  • nonchro·mati·cal·ly adverb
  • unchro·matic adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chromatic1

1590–1600; < Greek chrōmatikós, equivalent to chrōmat- ( chromato- ) + -ikos -ic
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chromatic1

C17: from Greek khrōmatikos, from khrōma colour
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Example Sentences

If you’re doodling on a page and you draw a linear hypergraph, its chromatic index will probably be far less than its number of vertices.

While Erdős, Faber and Lovász knew about these three extreme hypergraphs, they didn’t know if there were any others that also have the maximum chromatic index.

Complete graphs with an odd number of vertices have the maximum chromatic index allowed by the Erdős-Faber-Lovász conjecture.

The conjecture predicts that the chromatic index of a linear hypergraph is never more than its number of vertices.

If you slightly modify one of the three extreme hypergraphs, the result will typically also have the maximum chromatic index.

Inside the bus, the walls are plastered with famous figures over swirls of chromatic paint.

If the genus is Chromatic, as M. Ruelle is disposed to think, they are g-a-a♯-b-d-e-f.

Along with this change we have to note the comparative disuse of the Enharmonic and Chromatic divisions of the tetrachord.

The outlines of things under these rainbow-tinted undulations produced the chromatic effects of optical glasses made too convex.

It contains nothing notable, except perhaps the descending chromatic successions of chords of the sixth.

Observe now the chromatic variety and beauty produced by intelligent horticulture!

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chromatechromatic aberration