 This broken cycle causes intervals that cross the break to be written as augmented or diminished "chromatic" intervals.In meantone temperament, for instance, chromatic semitones (E–E) are smaller than diatonic semitones (E–F), and with consonant intervals such as the major third the enharmonic equivalent is generally less consonant.If the tritone is assumed diatonic, the classification of written intervals by this definition is not significantly different from the "drawn from the same diatonic scale" definition given above as long as the harmonic minor and ascending melodic minor scale variants are not included.