chromatic vs of color

chromatic

adj
  • Characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue. 

  • One of three types of tetrachord (the others being the diatonic and enharmonic), with an interval between half and four-fifths of the total interval of a tetrachord. 

  • Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction. 

  • Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written. 

  • Brightly coloured; colourful, vivid. 

  • Relating to chromatin (“a complex of DNA, RNA, and proteins within the cell nucleus out of which chromosomes condense during cell division”). 

of color

adj
  • Nonwhite; of a race other than white, for example black. 

  • Belonging to a category of people with mixed black and white ancestry in the Americas in the 18th and early 19th centuries. 

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