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Definition of chromatic adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

chromatic

adjective
 
/krəˈmætɪk/
 
/krəˈmætɪk/
(music)
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  1. of the chromatic scale, a series of musical notes that rise and fall in semitones compare diatonic
    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French chromatique or Latin chromaticus, from Greek khrōmatikos, from khrōma, khrōmat- ‘colour, chromatic scale’.
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