Associations to the word «Chromatic»

Wiktionary

CHROMATIC, adjective. Relating to or characterised by hue.
CHROMATIC, adjective. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
CHROMATIC, adjective. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written.
CHROMATIC ABERRATION, noun. (optics) An optical aberration, in which an image has coloured fringes, caused by differential refraction of light of different wavelengths.
CHROMATIC NUMBER, noun. (graph theory) The smallest number of colours needed to colour a connected graph
CHROMATIC NUMBERS, noun. Plural of chromatic number
CHROMATIC SCALE, noun. (music) A scale including all twelve semitones in an octave.
CHROMATIC SCALES, noun. Plural of chromatic scale

Dictionary definition

CHROMATIC, adjective. Able to refract light without spectral color separation; "chromatic lens".
CHROMATIC, adjective. Based on a scale consisting of 12 semitones; "a chromatic scale".
CHROMATIC, adjective. Being or having or characterized by hue.

Wise words

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Stephen King