chromatics

American  

[kroh-mat-iks, kruh-] / kroʊˈmæt ɪks, krə- /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the science of colors.

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chromatics British  

/ krəʊˈmætɪks /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the science of colour

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Other Word Forms

• chromatist
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of chromatics

First recorded in 1700–10; see origin at chromatic, -ics

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

chromatics

The band played wall-of-sound guitar music, combining major chord lifts with chromatics from their native land.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2018

There were harmonic patterns and motifs that peeped through the dense chromatics; and Josefowicz, playing from memory, drew a standing ovation for her intense delivery.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2017

McLaughlin began to paint just as its gestural extravagances and emotionally fraught chromatics began to coalesce into the New York School.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2016

Unlike the harmonica, lowliest of wind instruments, the ukulele has all the chromatics, can be played in any key.

From Time Magazine Archive

In "Karma," besides, or rather by reason of, the moral,—his newly got psyche,—he returned to a reliance upon essentials, upon the datum of the spirit, and not upon its reflections, refractions, and chromatics.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould

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