Chromatická

Chromatická is the feminine singular form of the Czech adjective chromatický, meaning relating to color or chromatic phenomena. It is used across fields to describe color-related or tonal characteristics and appears predominantly in technical or scientific terminology.

In music, chromatická refers to elements involving chromaticism, such as chromatická stupnice (chromatic scale) and chromatická modulace. These terms describe approaches that use semitone steps outside the diatonic framework, expanding harmonic language beyond strict tonal theory.

In optics and color science, chromatická is used with terms about color and wavelength. The most common example is chromatická aberace (chromatic aberration), a lens imperfection caused by different wavelengths of light being refracted by different amounts, producing color fringes in images.

More generally, chromatická describes color-related properties of objects, surfaces, and displays, as in chromatická barva or chromatické popisy barev, where the emphasis is on color characteristics rather than on musical or optical phenomena alone. The form adapts to the gender of the noun it modifies.

See also: chromatický (masculine form of the same root), chroma, and chromatografický (pertaining to chromatography). Chromatická remains the feminine adjectival form used when the associated noun is feminine in Czech.