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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chromatic \Chro*mat"ic\, adjective [L. chromaticus, Gr. ?, suited for color, fr. ?, ?, color; akin to ? color, ? skin, color of the skin.]
1. Relating to color, or to colors.
2. (Mus.) Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.
Note: The intermediate tones were formerly written and printed in colors.
{Chromatic aberration}. (Opt.) See {Aberration}, {4}.
{Chromatic printing}, printing from type or blocks covered with inks of various colors.
{Chromatic scale} (Mus.), the scale consisting of thirteen tones, including the eight scale tones and the five intermediate tones.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
chromatic
adjective
1: able to refract light without spectral color separation; "chromatic lens"
2: based on a scale consisting of 12 semitones; "a chromatic scale" [ant: {diatonic}]
3: being or having or characterized by hue [ant: {achromatic}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "chromatic": cold, colorific, coloring, cool, dichromatic, enharmonic, glowing, harmonious, many-colored, matching, medley, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, parti-colored, pigmentary, polychromatic, prismatic, rainbow, semitonic, spectral, tinctorial, tingent, tonal, tonic, toning, variegated, warm
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