| CHROMIC | • chromic adj. (Chemistry) of, relating to, or containing chromium, especially in oxidation state 3. • CHROMIC adj. pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium. |
| ACHROMIC | • achromic adj. (Sciences) Uncoloured; not pigmented; lacking in colour. • ACHROMIC adj. having no colour. |
| DICHROMIC | • dichromic adj. Furnishing or giving two colours; said of defective vision, in which all the compound colours are resolvable… • dichromic adj. Containing two atoms of chromium. • DICHROMIC adj. able to see two colours and two only, as in red-green colour-blind persons who see only blue and yellow. |
| TRICHROMIC | • trichromic adj. (Chemistry) Containing three atoms of chromium. • trichromic adj. Of or pertaining to three colours; trichromatic. • TRICHROMIC adj. having normal colour vision. |
| HYPOCHROMIC | • hypochromic adj. (Physics, chemistry) Describing a decrease in the intensity of a spectral band due to a change in the… • hypochromic adj. (Medicine) Having a lower than normal amount of hemoglobin in the red blood cells. |
| MONOCHROMIC | • monochromic adj. Of a single colour; monochromatic. • MONOCHROMIC adj. of one colour only, also MONOCHROMICAL. |
| POLYCHROMIC | • polychromic adj. Polychromatic; many-coloured. • polychromic adj. (Chemistry) Pertaining to, or designating, any one of several acids (known only in their salts) which… • POLYCHROMIC adj. many-coloured, also POLYCHROME, POLYCHROMOUS. |
| TRICHROMICS | • TRICHROMIC n. one with normal colour vision. |
| BATHOCHROMIC | • bathochromic adj. (Physics) Of a change in the position of a spectral band, to a lower frequency. • BATHOCHROMIC adj. denoting or relating to a shift to a longer wavelength in the absorption spectrum of a compound. |
| HELIOCHROMIC | • heliochromic adj. Pertaining to, or produced by, heliochromy. • HELIOCHROMIC adj. like a heliochrome, a photograph that reproduces the natural colours of the subject. |
| HYPSOCHROMIC | • hypsochromic adj. (Physics) Of a change in the position of a spectral band, to a higher frequency. • HYPSOCHROMIC adj. relating to a hypsochrome, a shift to a shorter wavelength in the absorption spectrum of a compound. |
| PHOTOCHROMIC | • photochromic adj. Of, related to, or produced by photochromism. • photochromic adj. (Chemistry) Relating to the part of a molecule responsible for its photochromism. • PHOTOCHROMIC adj. changing colour, and hence changing the amount of light transmitted when the incident light increases, or decreases. |
| MONOCHROMICAL | • MONOCHROMICAL adj. of one colour only, also MONOCHROMIC. |
| PHOTOCHROMICS | • photochromics n. The study of photochromism. • PHOTOCHROMIC n. a photochromic material. |
| THERMOCHROMIC | • thermochromic adj. That changes color on exposure to heat. • THERMOCHROMIC adj. relating to thermochromism. |