chroma

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”).

noun

  1. The colorfulness relative to the brightness of a similarly illuminated area
  2. The aspect of a colour's hue that depends on the amount of white or black in it; saturation
  3. (music) A note in a chromatic scale

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