chromatic scale

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   a 12-note scale including all the semitones of the octave

   Broaderscale

Questions about chromatic scale

What does chromatic scale mean?

chromatic scale means "a 12-note scale including all the semitones of the octave".

Is chromatic scale a common word?

chromatic scale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.