Definition of Chromatics

1. n. The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.

Definition of Chromatics

1. Noun. The science of colours; the branch of optics that deals with the properties of colours. ¹

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Definition of Chromatics

1. chromatic [n] - See also: chromatic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chromatics

chromatic colour
chromatic fibre
chromatic granule
chromatic number
chromatic numbers
chromatic scale
chromatic scales
chromatic spectrum
chromatic vision
chromatical
chromatically
chromaticism
chromaticisms
chromaticities
chromaticity
chromatics (current term)
chromatid
chromatids
chromatin
chromatin 3'-phosphatase-5'-hydroxy kinase
chromatin body
chromatin granule
chromatin network
chromatin nucleolus
chromatin particles
chromatinic
chromatinolysis
chromatinorrhexis
chromatins
chromatism

Literary usage of Chromatics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Natural Philosophy by William Holmes Chambers Bartlett (1859)
"chromatics; Color in light corresponds to ... chromatics. § 91. chromatics is a name given to that branch of optics ..."

2. Public School Methods (1921)
"They may have sung as a tone drill, without explanation of the mode, tkis exercise : la ti do re mi fa sol' la 1 In the fourth year, the work in chromatics ..."

3. Astronomical Register (1882)
"ADMIRAL SMYTH'S "SIDEREAL chromatics: Sir,—With reference to the diagram of colours in Admiral Smyth-s " Sidereal chromatics," there can be no doubt about ..."

4. A System of Natural Philosophy by John Lee Comstock (1847)
"chromatics, OR THE PHILOSOPHY OF COLORS. 759. We have thus far considered light as a simple substance, and have supposed that all its parts were equally ..."

5. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"chromatics.—Hitherto light has been considered without reference to colour; the study of this branch of the subject constitutes the science of chromatics. ..."

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