chromatic

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɹəˈmæt.ɪk/, /kɹəʊˈmæt.ɪk/ (General American) IPA(key): /kɹəˈmæt.ɪk/, /kɹoʊˈmæt.ɪk/, [-ɾɪk] Rhymes: -ætɪk Hyphenation: chro‧mat‧ic === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Adjective ==== chromatic (not generally comparable, comparative more chromatic, superlative most chromatic) Uses relating to colour (not comparable) Characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue. Antonym: nonchromatic (comparable) Brightly coloured; colourful, vivid. Antonyms: achromatic, drab, dull, colourless, nonchromatic (not comparable, optics) Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction. (not comparable, graph theory) Relating to colorings of graphs. (not comparable, music) (Ancient Greece, historical) 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. Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written. Antonyms: achromatic, diatonic Moving in semitones. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From chromatin +‎ -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives from nouns). ==== Adjective ==== chromatic (not comparable) (biology) Relating to chromatin (a complex of DNA, RNA, and proteins within the cell nucleus out of which chromosomes condense during cell division). ===== Translations ===== === References === === Further reading === colour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia diatonic and chromatic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia chromatic (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “chromatic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “chromatic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. “chromatic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.