Chromatic

Quick meaning: Chromatic is an adjective meaning Uses relating to colour.

Meaning

Uses relating to colour.

More Meanings

1. Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written.
2. Moving in semitones.
3. 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.
4. (biology) Relating to chromatin (a complex of DNA, RNA, and proteins within the cell nucleus out of which chromosomes condense during cell division).

Example Sentences

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.

If we are amazed at the precision with which the chromatic elements of the nucleus are divided and distributed, we can be no less astonished at the wonderful directive influence exercised by the asters upon the nuclei; […]

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.

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.

Synonyms for chromatic

Depending on context, synonyms include aureate, gilded, carmine, azure, ochre, cerulean.

Antonyms for chromatic

Common opposites include achromatic, diatonic, colorless.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include colored, earthlike, rust, rusty, bronze, gold.

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