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halftone

noun

Meaning

  1. Half the interval between two notes on a scale.
  2. A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
  3. An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
  4. To reproduce a photograph or other continuous tone image by the use of dots of various sizes.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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