chromatic
IPA: kroʊmˈætɪk
adjective
- Uses relating to colour
- (not comparable) Characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue.
- (comparable) Brightly coloured; colourful, vivid.
- (not comparable, optics) Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
- (not comparable, music)
- (Ancient Greece, historical) One of three types of tetrachord (the others being the diatonic and enharmonic), with an interval between half and four-fifths of the total interval of a tetrachord.
- Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written.
- (biology) Relating to chromatin (“a complex of DNA, RNA, and proteins within the cell nucleus out of which chromosomes condense during cell division”).
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Examples of "chromatic" in Sentences
- Many of the scales are chromatic of course.
- I'm a little confused on the order of the chromatic scale.
- It is a measure of the chromatic dispersion of the element.
- The first subject in the fugue is chromatic and ornamental.
- This can be seen in the many chromatic notes in the melody.
- The chromatic semitone is usually smaller than the diatonic.
- He was also known as 'the master of the chromatic blues harmonica'.
- In this section of the piece the percussionists play chromatic harmonicas.
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