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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The scientific study of color.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors and colored bodies.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The science of colours; the branch of optics that deals with the properties of colours.

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Examples

  • Sooner or later they would come, and the chromatics would die.

    Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010

  • Philadelphia and New York have not forgotten the harrowing chromatics in Die Glückliche Hand, which Leopold Stokowski gave three years ago.

    Someone to watch over me Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • It's one of that landmark motion picture's most arresting images and not just because the rich chromatics and gin-like clarity are presented in stark counterpoint to the just around the corner cavalcade of grotesqueness and grue.

    House to house Arbogast 2008

  • I won't scan and post them here because I want you to see them in the magazine, where their clarity and vivid chromatics will blow you away.

    Seiderman, Seiderman... does whatever a Seider can Arbogast 2008

  • Nor does it have to go all the way to the edges, because plenty of paintings lack full-intensity chromatics.

    Archive 2008-01-01 James Gurney 2008

  • The film special effects look great, the chromatics tend to impress more due to the sepia tones, or the violent red of the blood.

    Gone to Norway, bumper post below DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • She came up and she played the electric piano, a Fender Rhodes, with the chromatics -- (imitates melody) -- and then the rhythm section comes in.

    Arif Mardin: Tales from the Recording Studio 2005

  • She came up and she played the electric piano, a Fender Rhodes, with the chromatics -- (imitates melody) -- and then the rhythm section comes in.

    Arif Mardin: Tales from the Recording Studio 2005

  • Sooner or later they would come, and the chromatics would die.

    The Dragons of Chaos Weis, Margaret 1997

  • Instead of pulling away from each other, the products of cell division (the sister chromatics) usually remain side by side.

    5 Breeding Triticale 1989

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