tonal

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1 Crelating to tones of colour or sound 色调的；音调的

The tonal range she uses is wide and varied.

她使用的色调丰富多彩。

2. technicalAPM a piece of music that is tonal is based on a particular key 〔音乐〕调性的 OPP atonal

Examples from the Corpus

tonal• Moreover, there are continuous advances in tonal and technical design and production.• This gives better tonal contrast than any other pairing.• The exaggerated tonal contrasts Manet used added drama to his paintings.• It's cleverer and more controllable than gamma correction and easier than struggling with brightness / contrast or tonal curves.• Little concerned to adopt the tonal idioms of opera for the sake of dramatic expression was Nicolas Bernier.• Where I am sometimes less happy is in the tonal quality of the upper string playing.• The tonal range is extensive from just a few different grades.• She spoke in an angry volume that shrank my male unit and climbed tonal scales like a steam-driven xylophone.• Kingsbury a patterned tonal Wilton with a Venetian style in 10 colours.

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Corpus

BNC: 17047 COCA: 15307

tonal

Relating to sound: above, acoustic, acoustics...