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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Half tone \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Half-tone \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: halftone n 1: a print obtained from photoengraving 2: the etched plate used to reproduce an illustration [syn: {halftone engraving}, {photoengraving}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: halftoneThe reproducion of {greyscale} {images} using dots of a single shade but varying size to simulate the different shades of grey. {Laser printers} that cannot print different sized dots, halftones are produced by varying the numbers of dots in a given area. This process is also used to produce a black and white version of a colour original using shades of grey in place of colours. See also {device independent bitmap}. (1996-09-20)
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