halftone

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English

Definitions

noun

Half the interval between two notes on a scale.
A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.

verb

To reproduce a photograph or other continuous tone image by the use of dots of various sizes.

Related words

Synonyms

semitone photoengraving halftone engraving silhouette vignette half-tone half tone quarter tone quarter-tone quartertone half-step hemitone semiditone hemitonic pentatonic scale second minim

Associated

erotica dots printing ink reproduction dot screens photographic reproduce pornography tones imagery

Rhymes

moan groan drone bemoan cornerstone tone stone condone unknown cyclone

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