Chromatic

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解釋/意思:

(adj.) being or having or characterized by hue .

(adj.) based on a scale consisting of 12 semitones; 'a chromatic scale' .

(adj.) able to refract light without spectral color separation; 'chromatic lens' .

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解釋/意思:

(a.) Relating to color, or to colors.

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

欧内斯廷編輯

解釋/意思:

adj. relating to colours: coloured: (mus.) relating to notes in a melodic progression which are raised or lowered by accidentals without changing the key of the passage and also to chords in which such notes occur.—ns. Chrōm′ate a salt of chromic acid; Chrōmat′ics the science of colours.—v.t. Chrō′matise to impregnate with a chromate.—ns. Chrōmatog′raphy a treatise on colours; Chrōmatol′ogy the science of colours or a treatise thereon; Chrōmat′ophore one of the pigment-cells in animals: one of the granules in protoplasm: one of the brightly coloured bead-like bodies in the oral disc of certain actinias &c.; Chrōmatop′sia coloured vision; Chrō′matrope an arrangement in a magic-lantern by which effects like those of the kaleidoscope are produced; Chrō′matype Chrō′motype a photographic process by which a coloured impression of a picture is obtained.—adj. relating to the chromatype.—ns. Chrōme Chrō′mium a metal remarkable for the beautiful colours of its compounds.—adj. Chrōm′ic.—ns. Chrō′mite a mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; Chrō′mo-lith′ograph or merely Chrō′mo a lithograph printed in colours; Chrō′molithog′raphy; Chrō′mosphere a layer of incandescent red gas surrounding the sun through which the light of the photosphere passes—also Chrōmat′osphere; Chrō′mo-typog′raphy typography in colours; Chrō′mo-xy′lograph a picture printed in colours from wooden blocks; Chrō′mo-xylog′raphy.—Chromatic scale a scale proceeding by semitones; Chromic acid an acid of chromium of an orange-red colour much used in dyeing and bleaching.

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