English edit

Etymology edit

bi- +‎ chromatic

Adjective edit

bichromatic (not comparable)

  1. Of two colors.
    • 2018, Beth A. Berkowitz, Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud, page 189:
      The bichromatic blue-and-white Jewish pet accessories, littered with stars of David, create a lifestyle brand for Judaism to rival other popular branding schemes, especially those of Christian America.
  2. (mathematics) Describing a graph with edges of two possible colours.
  3. (physics) Describing a spectrometer (or similar instrument or system) capable of analysing two wavelengths at the same time.
  4. (music) Employing or relating to a quarter tone scale.
    • 1922, Oscar George Sonneck, The Musical Quarterly, volume 8, page 620:
      Its title is "Musik mit Vierteltönen," and it contains the sum of the author's experiences with the "bichromatic harmonium" of his own construction.
    • 1969, The Journal for the Study of Consciousness, page 83:
      Bichromatic music on the electronic orchestra is the next step in the musical art of the 20th century.
    • 1998, Robert F. Gellerman, Gellerman's International Reed Organ Atlas (page 233)
      In 1926 Straube built a Bichromatic Quartertone Harmonium for Mordecai Sandberg with white keys for the whole tones, black keys for the half tones and brown keys for the quarter tones.

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