chromatic
/krəʊˈmætɪk/adjective
1
- Music relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written【乐】半音阶的。
1.1
- (of a scale) ascending or descending by semitones（音阶）升半音的; 降半音的。
1.2
- (of an instrument) able to play all the notes of the chromatic scale（乐器）可演奏全部半音阶乐音的。
2
- of, relating to, or produced by colour（与）色彩（有关）的; 由色彩产生的。
派生词
chromatically
adverbchromaticism
noun词源
early 17th cent.: from French chromatique or Latin chromaticus, from Greek khrōmatikos, from khrōma, khrōmat- 'colour， chromatic scale'.