halftone
noun
- Art a tone or shading between light and dark
- Music semitone
- Photoengraving
- a technique of representing shadings by dots produced by photographing the object from behind a fine screen
- a photoengraving so made
See halftone in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(hăfˈtōnˌ, häfˈ-)
noun- A tone or value halfway between a highlight and a dark shadow.
a. A picture in which the gradations of light are obtained by the relative darkness and density of tiny dots produced by photographing the subject through a fine screen.
b. A picture made by such a process.
- Music See semitone.
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