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chromatic scale
musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below another
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Chromatic scale: every key of one octave on the piano keyboard
In Western music, a chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches within an octave, where the interval between any two adjacent notes is a semitone.