Meanings
- Staining; the acquisition of color.
The nucleus of the cell is large and spherical; the chromatization is poor.
2019, T B Batygina, Embryology of Flowering Plants1 more example
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 three weeks, it lasts three or four days.
1899, J.H. Carstens, Transactions of the Michigan State Medical Society title=Why Some Severe Cases of Appendicitis Recover without Operation - entertainmentA transition toward chromatic atonality.
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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 music along one-dimensionally since Tristan' (M 167/MMP 19).
2018, Josh Robinson, Adorno's Poetics of Form, page 68
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