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halftone definition

half·tone (-tōn′)

noun

  1. Art a tone or shading between light and dark
  2. Music semitone
  3. Photoengraving
    1. a technique of representing shadings by dots produced by photographing the object from behind a fine screen
    2. a photoengraving so made

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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