The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polychromatic \Pol`y*chro*mat"ic\, a. [Poly- + chromatic.] Showing a variety, or a change, of colors.
Polychromatic acid (Old Chem.), a substance obtained by the action of nitric acid on aloes.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Showing a variety, or a change, of colours; having many colours; multicoloured. 2 (context physics of electromagnetic radiation English) Composed of more than one wavelength.
WordNet
adj. (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) composed of more than one wavelength; "polychromatic light" [ant: monochromatic]
having or exhibiting many colors [syn: polychrome, polychromic]
Usage examples of "polychromatic".
Dutifully, Nora and Lowery study the polychromatic photos, Nora passing them to Lowery, Lowery letting them accumulate on his lap and then passing them back to Dad.
Twist this, turn that, pull the trigger and a bolt of polychromatic fire spat from the rifles muzzle, vaporizing a fist-sized hole in the metal wall.
The weapon hit the wall and discharged, its bolt of polychromatic fire vaporizing a chunk of the floor.
Triple beams of searing energy lanced out from the rifles, and the polychromatic rays struck and clung to the sparkling defense fields.
Orr was a happy and unsuspecting simpleton with a thick mass of wavy polychromatic hair parted down the center.
All he could see initially was a fuzz of diffused polychromatic light which crept around the disordered lines of the lead panels.
The pictures of the Great White Way of New York, Piccadilly Circus, the Grands Boulevards of Paris and so forth, with their polychromatic visual clamour, still strike us as distractingly picturesque.
Then she spread out her superb, heavy arms in a backwards gesture of benediction and, as she did so, her wings spread, too, a polychromatic unfolding fully six feet across, spread of an eagle, a condor, an albatross fed to excess on the same diet that makes flamingoes pink.
Then out of his door and down the walk strode--not the polychromatic victim of a lost summertime, but the sheepman, rehabilitated.
He stopped and turned around and around, looking at the polychromatic glow above him.
She veered away to the left at approximately thirty degrees to the muchness and trotted forward through the polychromatic hummocks and hillocks, keeping an eye open.
The polychromatic stars twinkled in what seemed to be orchestral tempo.
They were a polychromatic lot, with skin tones ranging from almost as pale as Khal-layne to deep sea green.
Silent in his polychromatic bonds, all sounds being damped out long before they could reach free air, he glowered at his captors.
She felt Nimitz quivering in his carrier, shared his almost dazed response to the sensations flooding through him like some polychromatic roll of thunder that went on and on and on, and it was all she could do to carry through the instinct-level protocol for boarding a ship.