Chroma

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The aspect of color in the Munsell color system by which a sample appears to differ from a gray of the same lightness or brightness and that corresponds to saturation of the perceived color.
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  • n. Color.
  • n. The aspect of a colour's hue that depends on the amount of white or black in it; saturation
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In music: In Greek music, a modification of the usual diatonic scale.
  • n. The sign by which a note is raised or lowered a semitone; a sharp, ♯, or a flat, ♭.
  • n. An eighth-note or quaver, ♪. See croma.
  • n. A semitone or half-step, whether large or small. See semitone.
  • n. In rhetoric, a figure of speech which consists in speaking so as not to offend the hearer.
  • n. The degree of departure of a color-sensation from that of white or gray; the intensity of distinctive hue; color-intensity.
  • n. [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, a genus of lepidopterous insects.
  • n. A double sharp, ×, or double flat, d♭.
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  • n. chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
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