chromatic

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While it enables useful wavelength-dependent effects, it also causes chromatic aberrations that become more severe as bandwidth increases.

From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2026

The treed “Woodland Garden” to the west, with black tupelo and swamp white oaks, gives way to a “Perennial Meadow,” whose asters, purple beebalms and orange butterfly weed were chosen for their chromatic effect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025

The music itself blends jazz, blues and gospel music, creating a compositional voice the New York Times described as "dominated by lushly chromatic and modal harmonic writing, spiked with jagged rhythms and tart dissonance."

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2024

L’Rain — the songwriter and performer Taja Cheek — ponders vengeful, destructive impulses in a near-lullaby that wanders through a chromatic chord progression, building ambivalence into the harmonies.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2023

He swallowed hard, drew a breath and made another attempt, producing this time a roll call on a rising chromatic scale.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan