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chromatic adj

Uses relating to colour (not comparable) Characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue. (comparable) Brightly coloured; colourful, vivid. (not comparable, optics) Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction. (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. [...] (biology) Relating to chromatin (“a complex of DNA, RNA, and proteins within the cell nucleus out of which chromosomes condense during cell division”).

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