Definition of "chromatics" []

• The scientific study of color. (noun)

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• "Philadelphia and New York have not forgotten the harrowing chromatics in Die Glückliche Hand, which Leopold Stokowski gave three years ago."
• "Sooner or later they would come, and the chromatics would die."
• "Nor does it have to go all the way to the edges, because plenty of paintings lack full-intensity chromatics."