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Definition of chromatic adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

chromatic

adjective

NAmE//kroʊˈmæt̮ɪk//

, NAmE//krəˈmæt̮ɪk//

(music)

of thechromatic scale, a series of musical notes that rise and fall in half tones compare diatonic

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