About The Word Half-tone
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Half-tone
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What's The Definition Of Half-tone?Synonyms | Synonyms for Half-tone: Related Terms | Find terms related to Half-tone: See Also | Half-tone In Webster's Dictionary \Half tone\, or Half-tone \Half"-tone`\, n.
1. (Fine Arts)
(a) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting,
engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither
very dark nor very light.
(b) A half-tone photo-engraving.
2. (Music) A half step.
\Half"-tone`\, a. Having, consisting of, or pertaining to, half tones; specif. (Photo-engraving), pertaining to or designating plates, processes, or the pictures made by them, in which gradation of tone in the photograph is reproduced by a graduated system of dotted and checkered spots, usually nearly invisible to the unaided eye, produced by the interposition between the camera and the object of a screen. The name alludes to the fact that this process was the first that was practically successful in reproducing the half tones of the photograph. |
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