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English
Etymology
From bi- + chromatic.
Adjective
bichromatic (not comparable)
- Of two colors.
2018, Beth A. Berkowitz, Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud, page 189:The bichromatic blue-and-white Jewish pet accessories, littered with stars of David, create a lifestyle brand for Judaism to rival other popular branding schemes, especially those of Christian America.
- (mathematics) Describing a graph with edges of two possible colours.
- (physics) Describing a spectrometer (or similar instrument or system) capable of analysing two wavelengths at the same time.
- (music) Employing or relating to a quarter tone scale.
1922, Oscar George Sonneck, The Musical Quarterly, volume 8, page 620:Its title is "Musik mit Vierteltönen," and it contains the sum of the author's experiences with the "bichromatic harmonium" of his own construction.
1969, The Journal for the Study of Consciousness, page 83:Bichromatic music on the electronic orchestra is the next step in the musical art of the 20th century.
- 1998, Robert F. Gellerman, Gellerman's International Reed Organ Atlas (page 233)
- In 1926 Straube built a Bichromatic Quartertone Harmonium for Mordecai Sandberg with white keys for the whole tones, black keys for the half tones and brown keys for the quarter tones.
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