chromatization

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English

Noun

chromatization

  1. Staining; the acquisition of color.
    • 1899, J.H. Carstens, Transactions of the Michigan State Medical Society title=Why Some Severe Cases of Appendicitis Recover without Operation:
      My constant effort was to get catgut and kangaroo tendons and other things that would absorb quickly, and I have tried all these different methods, and I finally tried the method of Boerckman to sterilize catgut dry without a partical of chromatization, and found it is good, but it does not last three weeks, it lasts three or four days.
    • 2019, T B Batygina, Embryology of Flowering Plants:
      The nucleus of the cell is large and spherical; the chromatization is poor.
  2. (music) A transition toward chromatic atonality.
    • '2018, Josh Robinson, Adorno's Poetics of Form, page 68:
      In Composing for Film Adorno argues that the break he identifies between the bourgeois public and genuine Bourgeois art-music 'can be dated back to Tristan (GS 15: 59-60/CF 57), while in the Mahler book he insists that what he terms 'chromatization as the dequalifying of material' has been 'driving music along one-dimensionally since Tristan' (M 167/MMP 19).

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