bichromatic
adjEtymology From bi- + chromatic.
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Of two colors.
- 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.2018, Beth A. Berkowitz, Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud, page 189:
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Mathematics, Sciences Describing a graph with edges of two possible colours.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Describing a spectrometer (or similar instrument or system) capable of analysing two wavelengths at the same time.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Employing or relating to a quarter tone scale.
- Its title is "Musik mit Vierteltönen," and it contains the sum of the author's experiences with the "bichromatic harmonium" of his own construction.1922, Oscar George Sonneck, The Musical Quarterly, volume 8, page 620:
- Bichromatic music on the electronic orchestra is the next step in the musical art of the 20th century.1969, The Journal for the Study of Consciousness, page 83:
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- 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.1998, Robert F. Gellerman, Gellerman's International Reed Organ Atlas (page 233)
- Derived terms
- bichromatically
- Related terms
- polychromatic