CPage 279
- English Word Christom Definition See Chrisom.
- English Word Christophany Definition An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion.
- English Word Chromascope Definition An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.
- English Word Chromate Definition A salt of chromic acid.
- English Word Chromatic Definition Relating to color, or to colors.
- English Word Chromatic Definition Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.
- English Word Chromatical Definition Chromatic.
- English Word Chromatically Definition In a chromatic manner.
- English Word Chromatics Definition The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.
- English Word Chromatin Definition Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.
- English Word Chromatism Definition The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens.
- English Word Chromatism Definition An abnormal coloring of plants.
- English Word Chromatogenous Definition Producing color.
- English Word Chromatography Definition A treatise on colors
- English Word Chromatology Definition A treatise on colors.
- English Word Chromatophore Definition A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.
- English Word Chromatophore Definition One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.
- English Word Chromatoscope Definition A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.
- English Word Chromatosphere Definition A chromosphere.
- English Word Chromatrope Definition An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.