halftone
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halftone
noun halftones · half-tone
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Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.
That animals utter musical notes is familiar to every one, as we may daily hear in the singing of birds. It is a more remarkable fact that an ape, one of the Gibbons, produces an exact octave of musical sounds, ascending and descending the scale by half-tones; so that this monkey “alone of brute mam
Similar: semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale
- A picture made by using the process of half-toning. Before leaving New York a handsome booklet had been prepared and printed. The brochure contained the names of the commissioners, their public records, halftone portraits and a carefully prepared statement of the objects of the expedition.
- An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light. “No, I cannot enjoy it,” Cecilia said to Mrs. Devereux; “I don't mind the grey light; cloud and water, and half-tones of colour, are homely English and pleasant, and that opal where the sun should be has a suggestiveness richer than sunlight.[…]”
verb halftones · halftoning · halftoned · half-tone
- To reproduce a photograph or other continuous tone image by the use of dots of various sizes.
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noun picture made by half-toning
| Português | meio-tom |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Rasterdruck |
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