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"ref": "1853, William B[atchelder] Bradbury, George F[rederick] Root, assisted by Thomas Hastings, T[imothy] B. Mason, “The Singing Class”, in The Shawm: Library of Church Music: […], New York, N.Y.: Mason Brothers, […], →OCLC, lesson VIII (Dynamics (Power of Sounds)), page 23, column 1",
"text": "All the intervals of the scale that are a whole tone (step) distant from each other may be divided into half tones, (small steps), forming an entire scale of small intervals, (half tones), called the Chromatic Scale. […] All the tones (steps) of the scale being thus divided, either by means of the sharp or flat, we shall have for our Chromatic Scale thirteen intervals, of a half tone (small step) each.",
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"word": "cromàtic"
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"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
"word": "chromatique"
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"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
"word": "chromatisch"
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"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
"word": "krómatískur"
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"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
"word": "crómatach"
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"word": "leath-thonach"
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"sense": "characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue",
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"sense": "characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue",
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"sense": "characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue",
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"sense": "characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue",
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"sense": "characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue",
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"sense": "characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue",
"word": "cromatic"
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"sense": "characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue",
"word": "хромати́ческий"
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"roman": "cvetnój",
"sense": "characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue",
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"sense": "characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue",
"word": "cromático"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue",
"word": "kromatisk"
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "characterized or caused by, or relating to, colour or hue",
"word": "kulayin"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
"word": "cromàtic"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
"word": "chromatique"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
"word": "chromatisch"
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
"word": "krómatískur"
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"code": "io",
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
"word": "leath-thonach"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
"word": "cromatico"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kuromachikku na",
"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
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"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
"word": "kromatisk"
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"word": "kromatisk"
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"word": "cromatic"
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"word": "хромати́ческий"
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"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
"word": "cromático"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage of music is written",
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"ref": "1887 December 14, John Gray M‘Kendrick [i.e., John Gray McKendrick], “IV.—On the Modern Cell Theory, and the Phenomena of Fecundation.”, in Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, volume XIX, Glasgow: Published for the [Philosophical] Society [of Glasgow] by John Smith and Son, […], published 1888, →OCLC, page 84",
"text": "Each nucleus has, then, (1) a protoplasmic body, and (2) a portion formed of nuclein, which is the chromatin of [Walther] Flemming. […] The chromatic reticulum of Flemming is only an appearance due to the regular crossing of its convolutions, rarely to their temporary union.",
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"ref": "1890 February 6, [August] Weismann, “Prof. Weismann’s Theory of Heredity”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume XLI, number 1058, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 320, column 2",
"text": "Prof. [Sydney Howard] Vines also attacks my view of the idioplasmatic nature of the nuclear substance (the chromatic grains); and maintains that it is as easy to speak of the continuity of the cell-body as of that of the nuclear substance, and that the one may transmit heritable qualities to progeny as well as the other.",
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"ref": "1893, E[dwin] G[rant] Conklin, “Second Lecture. The Fertilization of the Ovum.”, in Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood’s Holl in the Summer Session of 1893, Boston, Mass.: Ginn & Company, published 1894, →OCLC, page 29",
"text": "If we are amazed at the precision with which the chromatic elements of the nucleus are divided and distributed, we can be no less astonished at the wonderful directive influence exercised by the asters upon the nuclei; […]",
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