chromatic
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Definition
adj (English)
1. Uses relating to colourAntonyms: nonchromaticnot-comparableusually
2. Uses relating to colourAntonyms: achromatic, drab, dull, colourless, nonchromaticcomparablenot-comparableusually
3. Uses relating to colournot-comparableusually
4. Uses relating to colournot-comparableusually
5. (not comparable, music)historicalnot-comparableusually
6. (not comparable, music)Examples: "All the intervals of the scale that are a whole tone (step) distant from each other may be divided into half tones, (small steps), forming an entire scale of small intervals, (half tones), called the Chromatic Scale. […] All the tones (steps) of the scale being thus divided, either by means of the sharp or flat, we shall have for our Chromatic Scale thirteen intervals, of a half tone (small step) each."Antonyms: achromatic, diatonicnot-comparableusually
adj (English)
1. (biology) Relating to chromatin (“a complex of DNA, RNA, and proteins within the cell nucleus out of which chromosomes condense during cell division”).Examples: "Each nucleus has, then, (1) a protoplasmic body, and (2) a portion formed of nuclein, which is the chromatin of [Walther] Flemming. […] The chromatic reticulum of Flemming is only an appearance due to the regular crossing of its convolutions, rarely to their temporary union."; "The chromatic threads next arrange themselves in the equatorial plane of the nucleus, and then divide into two groups of threads, each of which forms a daughter nucleus."; "Prof. [Sydney Howard] Vines also attacks my view of the idioplasmatic nature of the nuclear substance (the chromatic grains); and maintains that it is as easy to speak of the continuity of the cell-body as of that of the nuclear substance, and that the one may transmit heritable qualities to progeny as well as the other."not-comparable
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