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

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.