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chromatization

chromatization noun: staining; the acquisition of color.

Noun

chromatization

  1. Staining; the acquisition of color.
    • My constant effort was to get catgut and kangaroo tendons and other things that would absorb quickly, and I have tried all these different methods, and I finally tried the method of Boerckman to sterilize catgut dry without a partical of chromatization, and found it is good, but it does not last...1899, J.H. Carstens, Transactions of the Michigan State Medical Society title=Why Some Severe Cases of Appendicitis Recover without Operation
    • The nucleus of the cell is large and spherical; the chromatization is poor.2019, T B Batygina, Embryology of Flowering Plants
  2. A transition toward chromatic atonality.
    • In Composing for Film Adorno argues that the break he identifies between the bourgeois public and genuine Bourgeois art-music 'can be dated back to Tristan (GS 15: 59-60/CF 57), while in the Mahler book he insists that what he terms 'chromatization as the dequalifying of material' has been 'driving...2018, Josh Robinson, Adorno's Poetics of Form, page 68

Words formed from chromatization

Questions about chromatization

What does chromatization mean?
Chromatization means staining; the acquisition of color.
What part of speech is chromatization?
Chromatization is a noun.

Words near chromatization in the dictionary

  1. chromatism
  2. chromatisms
  3. chromatist
  4. chromatists
  5. chromatite
  6. chromatization
  7. chromatize
  8. chromatized
  9. chromatizes
  10. chromatizing
  11. chromato-

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