Chromatic (disambiguation)

Chromatic, a word ultimately derived from the Greek noun χρῶμα (khrṓma), which means "complexion" or "color", and then from the Greek adjective χρωματικός (khrōmatikós; "colored"), may refer to:

In music

• Chromatic scale, the western-tempered twelve-tone scale
• Chromatic chord, chords built from tones chromatically altered from the native scale of the musical composition
• Chromaticism, the use of chromatic scales, chords, and modulations
• Total chromatic, the use of all twelve pitches of the chromatic scale in tonal music
• Chromatic fantasia, a specific form of fantasia originating in sixteenth century Europe
• The Chromatic button accordion
• The chromatic harmonica
• Chromatic genus, a genus of divisions of the tetrachord characterized by an upper interval of a minor third
• Diatonic and chromatic, as a property of several structures, genres, and other features in music, often contrasted with diatonic
• Chromatics (band), an American electronic music band
• Chromatica, the sixth studio album by American singer Lady Gaga
• "Chromatic", a song by +/- from You Are Here, 2003

In optics, vision, and color

• Colorimetry, the science of color is sometimes called chromatics
• Chromaticity, the quality of a color as determined by its "purity" and dominant wavelength
• Chromatic aberration, departures from perfect imaging in optics systems due to dispersion
• Chromatic dispersion, the dispersion of light due to differing refraction index for different wavelengths
• RG Chromaticity, a two-dimensional color space in which there is no color intensity information
• Chromatic adaptation, the ability for some organisms to perceive objects similarly in varying lighting conditions

In mathematics

• Chromatic polynomial, a polynomial which encodes the number of different ways to vertex color a graph using n colors
• Chromatic numbering
• Chromatic index
• Acyclic chromatic number
• Strong chromatic number
• Fractional chromatic number
• Vertex chromatic number

Other uses

• Von Luschan's chromatic scale, a method for classifying skin color
• Chromatic dragon in Dungeons & Dragons
• chromatic (programmer), a Perl programmer and writer
• Chromatics Inc., a manufacturer of color graphics display systems
• chromatic, of biological material, the ability to take up staining

See also

In music

• Twelve tone technique
• Serialism
• Equal temperament
• Sequence

In Ancient Greek and Byzantine music

• Diatonic
• Enharmonic
• Byzantine Music
• Maqam (disambiguation)

In optics, vision and color

• Color
• International Commission on Illumination, the international authority on light, illumination, colour, and colour spaces.