chromatic
/kɹəˈmæt.ɪk/ adjective C2- Characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue.
- Brightly coloured; colourful, vivid.
- Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
- Relating to colorings of graphs.
- 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.
- Moving in semitones.
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