(a.) Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
(2) Scientists and clinicians concerned with underwater vision have not considered the relationship between chromatic aberration, water color, and the refractive state of the eye.
(3) Growth of cells in medium containing BrdU for two generations allows fluorometric documentation of the semiconservative distribution of newly replicated DNA between sister chromatids, and regions of sister chromated exchange are demarcated.
(4) The male:female prevalence of nickel allergy was 1:2 (sex difference p less than 0.001) and for chromate was 7:1 (sex difference p less than 0.001).
(5) The results were interpreted as the manifestation of chromatically-opponent system activities in temporal integration.
(6) In Experiment 1, newborns differentiated gray from green, from yellow, and from red: For each of these hues they preferred chromatic-and-gray checkerboards over gray squares matched in mean luminance, even though the luminance of the gray checks was varied systematically over a wide range so as to minimize nonchromatic cues.
(7) With the advent of colour coding in electro-optical displays, the need for a detailed quantification of focusing responses to chromatic stimuli is particularly important because of the influence of the chromatic aberration present in ocular optics on the focusing response of the eye.
(8) In agreement with reports from comparable centres, metals are high up on the "hitlist" of frequent allergens (nickel 24%, cobalt 9%, chromates 6%), followed by ingredients of cosmetics and toiletries (fragrances 16%, balsam of Peru 10%, Kathon 5%), whilst already way back are topical medicines (neomycin 4%, parabens 3%, lanolin 2%, benzocaine 1%) and rubber additives (thiuram-mix 2% and carba-mix 1%).
(9) Spectral differences in image size are proportional to the eye's longitudinal chromatic aberration and the axial distance between the entrance pupil and nodal point.
(10) The human epidemiological studies have provided convincing evidence that zinc chromate is a potent carcinogen and there is some evidence that calcium chromate and chromium trioxide also constitute a cancer hazard in humans.
(11) Stimulus parameters were selected to isolate the chromatic and achromatic systems.
(12) Exposure to 10(-7) M chromate solution for 7 days inhibited colony formation while acute (1 h) treatment was toxic at 5 .
(13) In many cyanobacteria, phycoerythrin expression is regulated by light wavelength in a response known as chromatic adaptation.
(14) In the lung of a rat intratracheally injected with a saline solution of sodium chromate, ascorbic acid decreased to 80% of the normal level, and ca.
(15) We conclude that, for stimuli of either achromatic or chromatic contrast, peripheral spatial resolution is limited by post-receptoral mechanisms.
(16) Patients with high-tension glaucoma showed significant losses in both chromatic and achromatic sensitivities when compared with low-tension glaucoma patients.
(17) We know a good deal less about the chromatic analyses that occur beyond these early stages.
(18) 93 patients with contact allergy to chromates were followed up for 15 years during which time they were examined clinically and patch tested quantitatively at regular intervals.
(19) Yet, the similarity of the chromatic arrangement of their centers with that of the ganglion cells shows that the four basic types of color channels are already in existence in the amacrine cells where they seem to originate.
(20) When the fields were juxtaposed, chromatic sensitivity declined with viewing duration.
Semitone
Definition:
(n.) Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Experiment 1, children from 4 to 6 years of age were superior in detecting the semitone change in the diatonic context compared with the nondiatonic context.
(2) Model recognition performance shows a rapid improvement in correct vowel identification as the difference between the fundamental frequencies of two simultaneous vowels increases from zero to one semitone in a manner closely resembling human performance.
(3) The 6-month-olds' better performance on the major and augmented interval patterns than on the pelog interval pattern is potentially attributable to either the 6-month-olds' lesser perceptual acculturation than that of the 1-year-olds or perhaps to an innate predisposition for processing of music based on a single fundamental interval, in this case the semitone.
(4) A significant sex effect, not observed in a prior related study, was eliminated by conversion of the Fo data to semitones.
(5) The results of this study indicate that SFF standard deviation and semitone range of SFF are significantly reduced for patients with vocal fold paralysis as compared with normals.
(6) In Experiment 2, infants 9 to 11 months of age detected the semitone change in all positions, but their performance was not influenced by diatonic context.
(7) Another pattern that consists of simultaneous pairs of tones displays related properties (the semitone paradox).
(8) The tones were either identical in pitch or differed by a semitone.
(9) Comparison of male and female profiles showed similar values for frequency range in semitones, maximum and minimum SPL output, and total SPL range.
(10) Pitch threshold or, alternatively, rate threshold was taken to be the modulation depth required to decide which of two samples had the higher modulation; the rate difference was 20%--just over three semitones.
(11) Previously given preferred notes were rated high, as were notes three or four semitones distant from the preferred notes, but not notes one or two semitones distant.
(12) As this difference increases up to four semitones, performance improves further only slowly, if at all.
(13) He then started to hear all music one semitone too high, and now at the age of 71 it is heard a full tone above the true pitch.
(14) They were tested for their detection of two types of changes to that melody: (a) a 4-semitone change in 1 note that remained within the key and implied dominant harmony (diatonic change) or (b) a 1-semitone change in the same note that went outside the key (nondiatonic change).
(15) In three experiments, musically trained and untrained adults listened to three repetitions of a 5-note melodic sequence followed by a final melody with either the same tune as those preceding it or differing in one position by one semitone.
(16) Within the framework of the experimental conditions, the following conclusions were drawn: 1) The vocal pitch expressed in semitones was almost linearly related to the cricothyroid distance, with an increase of 0.15 to 0.90 semitones per milimeter of cricothyroid approximation.
(17) Frequency difference limens of these signals are in the order of 1-2 semitones.
(18) Specifically, one such waveform, when recorded on magnetic tape, will sound a semitone lower (rather than an octave higher) when played back at twice the tape speed.
(19) The form of the probability weightings derives from constraints on the "semitone span" of the intervals, the "fifth span" of the intervals, and the occurrence of "scale" notes.
(20) Variability in basal pitch levels for individual male children ranged from zero to two semitones from day to day and within time periods on one day.