English B chromatic scale spanning two octaves, played on a piano. Noun chromatic scale (plural chromatic scales) (music) A scale including all intervals of a particular tuning within an octave. Coordinate term: diatonic scale Translations a scale including all intervals of a particular tuning within an octave Chinese: Mandarin: 半音階／半音阶 (zh) (bànyīnjiē) Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: chromatische toonladder f Finnish: kromaattinen asteikko French: échelle chromatique f German: chromatische Tonleiter f Irish: scála leath-thonach m Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 半音階 (はんおんかい, han'onkai) Maori: āwhata tokitoki Portuguese: escala cromática f Russian: хроматическая гамма (xromatičeskaja gamma) Spanish: escala cromática f Swedish: kromatisk skala (sv) c Tagalog: talalinggang pinayaman Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.