Chromatic

Word CHROMATIC
Character 9
Hyphenation chro mat ic
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Chromatic"

What do we mean by chromatic?

Relating to colors or color. adjective

Relating to color perceived to have a saturation greater than zero. adjective

Of, relating to, or based on the chromatic scale. adjective

Relating to chords or harmonies based on nonharmonic tones. adjective

Relating to or of the nature of color.

In music: Involving tones foreign to the normal tonality of a scale, a harmony, or a piece; not diatonic, Involving the use of the black notes on the keyboard, or of sharps and flats on the staff.

In music, a note affected by an accidental. noun

In cytology, of or pertaining to chromatin, the stainable substance of the cell-nucleus.

Relating to color, or to colors. adjective

Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale. adjective

See Aberration, 4. adjective

Printing from type or blocks covered with inks of various colors. adjective

The scale consisting of thirteen tones, including the eight scale tones and the five intermediate tones. adjective

Relating to or characterised by hue. adjective

Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction. adjective

Regarding all twelve traditional Western pitch classes, regardless of temperament or intonation; Regarding entire sets of alternative pitch class systems. adjective

Able to refract light without spectral color separation adjective

Being or having or characterized by hue adjective

Relating to or characterised by hue.

Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.

Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written.

Moving in semitones.

Relating to chromatin

Someone who is so bipolar, that everything they say has a different emotion to it, so you never know what to expect. Also a wide-range of emotions in a short time. This is not considered classy in any way. Urban Dictionary

Synonym for colourful. Urban Dictionary

Extreme public display of bad taste in dressing, with loud and clashing colors. Aberration. Psychology: A disorder or abnormal alteration in one's mental state. Urban Dictionary

A major glitchy effect in editing videos that can suggest the presence of something otherworldly or affecting the broadcast. Often used as an editing choice in order to add spookiness or perhaps hidden details to the underlying story of a medium such as a show, movie, or ARG. Urban Dictionary

Being comprised of only two colors. ie. Using one more color than something that is monochromatic. Urban Dictionary

Something that ruins your life that is not easily found on the internet. Urban Dictionary

Someone who gets drunk/high off of colors. (on ectacy or acid at a rave) Urban Dictionary

Oink oink Urban Dictionary

To arrange items by color. US spelling. Urban Dictionary

A material in the space exploration game No Man's Sky, and is refined from copper and can be bought from Galactric trade terminals or from other traders. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Chromatic

The word "chromatic" in example sentences

The term chromatic derives from the Greek word chroma, meaning color. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For today we chose to share with you this playful set of tea cup stools, which ranks high in chromatic but also originality. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

John, to your last question, yes, I think a painting keyed heavily to a color family contributes to a photographic impression, because our own visual system has a "white balance" function called chromatic adaptation, which automatically corrects for a color cast. ❋ James Gurney (2010)

Saturation refers to chromatic purity, or freedom from dilution with white. ❋ BERND SCHMITT (1997)

By far the most common causes of prismatic color, in otherwise carefully constructed objectives, are the so-called chromatic aberrations of second or higher order. ❋ Various (N/A)

His work supplies not only the very basis of the Impressionist movement proper, but of all that has followed it and will follow it in the study of the so-called chromatic laws. ❋ Camille Mauclair (1908)

To overcome this difficulty (called chromatic aberration) telescope glasses were made small and of very long focus: some of them so long that they had no tube, all of them egregiously cumbrous. ❋ Oliver Lodge (1895)

Hence they are considered a defect and are called chromatic aberration. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Type would be inadequate to express the facial contortions and what might be termed the chromatic scales of vocal expression in which he often indulged, and they are, therefore, left for full comprehension to those of inventive and vivid imaginative powers. ❋ Charles Felton Pidgin (1883)

(Soundbite of music) BLAUSTEIN: This kind of chromatic motion, where the notes creep along in very small intervals, definitely lets you know that something bad is coming. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Minimal distortion, high resolution, minimum artifacts such as chromatic aberrations, ghosting and flaring are the proof of uncompromising imaging made possible by ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then we took two images at ISO 200, one with the lens zoomed out and the other zoomed in, looking for problems such as chromatic aberrations (discolouration of high contrast areas) and softness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In addition, optical aberrations, such as chromatic, spherical, and astigmatism are reduced to a minimum when compared to plate and cube beamsplitters, dramatically expanding the possibilities of using both convergent and divergent light.

Visual artifacts, such as chromatic aberration (purple fringing) or vignetting (shading of the corners) were pleasantly well controlled, even when I went purposely trying to shoot in conditions that would expose them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The latest addition to this list of "chromatic" collar terms is gold-collar, a word too new to be included in even the most recently published dictionary. ❋ Unknown (1986)

Jessica: Hey Justin. How are you? Justin: I'm having [a great day]. Jessica: That's really good. Justin: NO IT ISN'T [I HATE MY LIFE]. Jessica: ....... Justin: [JK LOL] BAHAHAHAHAH Jessica: Jeez, stop being so chromatic.... ❋ Mynameisgrass (2011)

"[Wow]! These [bubbles] are so [chromatic]!" ❋ ChromaticWorld (2016)

[Chromatic aberration] should be [taxed]. No one should be allowed to assault others with such a display of extreme [bad taste]. Laura is almost a perfect woman, beautiful and loaded, but she is an acute and embarrassing case of [chromatic aberration]. ❋ Rperazag (2010)

The red chromatic aberration in this one shot, given the context, suggests some type of [arcane] influence the character is under. --- [Markiplier's] 3 Scary Games series uses a lot of chromatic aberration to showcase the [spooky side] of certain characters and their intentions. ❋ Steph Lopod (2021)

You: "I love [your black] and white [jacket]." Your Friend: "Yeah i [felt] like being duo-chromatic today." ❋ JTstarship (2011)

[Guys] this [term] is [totally] chromatic saturation. ❋ Fargo_g (2017)

[that kid] [over there] is a chromatic lush. ❋ Prismatic Bliss (2009)

[damn], that was an oink-omatic chromatic splooge! ❋ Slimyhibber (2018)

I [alphabetized] my [books] and chromatized my [crayons]. ❋ Skaoi (2015)

I need some chromatic metal to make this [hyperdrive]. Do you have some [spare] chromatic metal because I need to make a [generator]. ❋ Dreiasaiy (2022)

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