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What does chromatic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word chromatic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Relating to or characterised by hue.
  2. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
  3. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written.
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The apochromatic lens, therefore, corrects for chromatic aberration to a greater degree than does an achromatic lens.
String bends, two-handed tapping, arpeggios, chromatic notes, and whammy bar dumps blaze through the leads with refreshing unpredictability.
Ex. 4 shows an octave of the chromatic scale beginning on C, notated in sharps ascending and flats descending.
Haydn composed this piece to show the chromatic possibility of the then-new keyed trumpet.
Typical aberrations that can impact imaging performance include astigmatism, chromatic aberration, and spherical aberration.
After an unusually long and chromatic development the recapitulation begins in the tonic minor.

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