halftone

  • 1Halftone —   [dt. Halbton], Halbtonbild …

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  • 2halftone — [haf′tōn΄] n. 1. Art a tone or shading between light and dark 2. Music SEMITONE 3. Photoengraving a) a technique of representing shadings by dots produced by photographing the object from behind a fine screen b) a photoengraving so made …

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  • 3Halftone — For the music interval, see semitone. Left: Halftone dots. Right: How the human eye would see this sort of arrangement from a sufficient distance. Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous tone imagery through the use of… …

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  • 4halftone — /haf tohn , hahf /, n. 1. Also called middle tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark. 2. Print. a. a process in which gradation of tone in an image is conveyed by first photographing… …

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  • 5halftone — UK [ˌhɑːfˈtəʊn] / US [ˈhæfˌtoʊn] noun Word forms halftone : singular halftone plural halftones a) [uncountable] a way of printing black and white photographs that uses spots of different sizes b) [countable] a photograph printed using the… …

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  • 6halftone — noun Date: 1651 1. half step 2 2. a. any of the shades of gray between the darkest and the lightest parts of a photographic image b. (1) a photoengraving made from an image photographed through a screen and then etched so that the details of the… …

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  • 7halftone — half|tone [ hæf,toun ] noun uncount a way of printing black and white photographs that uses spots of different sizes a. count a photograph printed using the halftone method …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 8halftone — /ˈhaftoʊn/ (say hahftohn) noun 1. Painting, Photography, etc. a value intermediate between high light and deep shade. 2. Photoengraving a. a process in which gradation of tone is obtained by a system of minute dots produced by a screen placed in… …

  • 9halftone — pustoninis spausdinimas statusas T sritis informatika apibrėžtis Įvairaus ↑pilkumo tonų išgavimas naudojant tik juodus ir baltus taškus. Beveik visuose spausdintuvuose vaizdas sudaromas vien iš juodų ir baltų taškų. Įvairūs pilkumo tonai gaunami… …

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  • 10halftone — noun 1. a print obtained from photoengraving • Hypernyms: ↑engraving 2. an engraving used to reproduce an illustration • Syn: ↑halftone engraving, ↑photoengraving • Hypernyms: ↑engraving …

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