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UK
/kɹəʊmˈætɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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able to refract light without spectral color separation
chromatic lens -
based on a scale consisting of 12 semitones
a chromatic scale - being or having or characterized by hue
How To Use chromatic In A Sentence
- Mr. Hernandez's monochromatic costumes were 1950s-style, with the plain garb of the villagers contrasting with the cosmopolitan clothes of Neruda and his wife, Matilde, and Di Cosimo's natty, attention-getting white suit. When Postman and Poet Meet
- Rounds are no longer written in modern musical styles, and remain untouched by developments in chromatic harmony, atonality, jazz idioms, serial structures and folk modes.
- trichromatic vision
- Chromatic versions of both the Chemnitz concertina and the bandoneon have been made.
- The new system was as deep and mysterious as its chromatic code name implied.
- The full force of the chromatic harmony was thrilling, as in such details as the cellos' dissonant flattened 6th just before the final cadence.
- It was at this time that he divided the scale into 43 microtones - there are 12 semitone intervals in a traditional chromatic scale - and began inventing instruments that could play his new microtonal music.
- I would be curious to know whether composers who work with just intonation came to it through diatonicism and then realized how cool it would be to adapt it to chromaticism, or whether they were chromatic from the start and just continually dissatisfied with the equal-tempered results. Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcements
- Stems and leaves of green set off the dreamy chromatic harmony.
- Orthochromatic film was only sensitive to the brightest natural light.