halftone
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
halftone (plural halftones)
- (music) Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.
- (printing) A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
- (art) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
Translations[edit]
semitone — see semitone
picture made by half-toning
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Verb[edit]
halftone (third-person singular simple present halftones, present participle halftoning, simple past and past participle halftoned)
- To reproduce a photograph or other continuous tone image by the use of dots of various sizes.
References[edit]
- OED2