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chromatic

adj
/kɹəˈmæt.ɪk/UK/kɹəˈmæt.ɪk/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French chromatique (“chromatic”) or directly from its etymon Latin chrōmaticus, from Ancient Greek χρωματικός (khrōmatikós, “relating to colour; one of the three types of tetrachord in Greek music”), from χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour; pigment; chromatic scale in music; music”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind; to rub; to stroke; to remove”), perhaps in the sense of the grinding of pigments) + -τῐκός (-tĭkós, suffix forming adjectives); analysable as chroma + -tic.

  1. derived from *gʰer-✻ — “to grind; to rub; to stroke; to remove”
  2. derived from χρωματικός — “relating to colour; one of the three types of tetrachord in Greek music”
  3. borrowed from chrōmaticus
  4. borrowed from chromatique — “chromatic”

Definitions

  1. Uses relating to colour

  2. One of three types of tetrachord (the others being the diatonic and enharmonic), with an…

    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.

  3. Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a…

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

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Moving in semitones.

    2. Relating to chromatin (a complex of DNA, RNA, and proteins within the cell nucleus out of…

      Relating to chromatin (a complex of DNA, RNA, and proteins within the cell nucleus out of which chromosomes condense during cell division).

      • The chromatic threads next arrange themselves in the equatorial plane of the nucleus, and then divide into two groups of threads, each of which forms a daughter nucleus.

The neighborhood

Derived

achromatic, allochromatic, amphichromatic, apochromat, bathochromatic, bichromatic, biochromatic, chorochromatic, chromatic aberration, chromatical, chromatically, chromaticism, chromaticity, chromaticize, chromaticness, chromatic number, chromatic scale, chromatic semitone, dichromatic, fluorochromatic, heterochromatic, hexachromatic, homochromatic, hyperchromatic, idiochromatic, interchromatic, isochromatic, kinechromatic, lithochromatic, monochromatic, multichromatic, nonchromatic, normochromatic, omnichromatic, orthochromatic, panchromatic, pentachromatic, perichromatic, photochromatic, polychromatic · +7 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at chromatic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at chromatic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at chromatic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA