halftone
Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
Printing.
a process in which gradation of tone in an image is conveyed by first photographing the image through a screen to break up the continuous tones of the image into minute, closely spaced dots, then using the print obtained to produce a metal plate by photoengraving, and finally using the plate to reproduce the original image by letterpress or offset printing.
the metal plate used in such a process.
the print obtained in such a process.: Compare line cut.
pertaining to, using, used in, or produced by the halftone process: a halftone screen; a halftone print.
Origin of halftone
1Other definitions for half tone (2 of 2)
Origin of half tone
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How to use halftone in a sentence
One missed the delicate half-tones on the prairie, but one heard and thrilled to the ringing note of endeavor.
The Girl From Keller's | Harold BindlossThese may be photographs, half-tones, like the illustrations in this book, or engravings.
Great Artists, Vol 1. | Jennie Ellis KeysorNature's pattern-book, too, is full of half tones and mixed tints.
Line and Form (1900) | Walter CraneThe gray half-tones of daybreak are not the gray half-tones of the day's close, though the degree of their shade may be the same.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas HardyIt was a phrase of song, a wandering strain in half tones and fluted accidentals, not unmelodious.
Where the Pavement Ends | John Russell
British Dictionary definitions for halftone
/ (ˈhɑːfˌtəʊn) /
a process used to reproduce an illustration by photographing it through a fine screen to break it up into dots
the etched plate thus obtained
the print obtained from such a plate
art a tonal value midway between highlight and dark shading
music, US and Canadian another word for semitone
relating to, used in, or made by halftone
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