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halftone

[ haf-tohn ]

noun

  1. Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
  2. Printing.
    1. 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.
    2. the metal plate used in such a process.
    3. the print obtained in such a process. Compare line cut.


adjective

  1. pertaining to, using, used in, or produced by the halftone process:

    a halftone screen; a halftone print.

halftone

/ ˈhɑːfˌtəʊn /

noun

    1. a process used to reproduce an illustration by photographing it through a fine screen to break it up into dots
    2. the etched plate thus obtained
    3. the print obtained from such a plate
  1. art a tonal value midway between highlight and dark shading
  2. music another word for semitone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. relating to, used in, or made by halftone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of halftone1

First recorded in 1645–55; half + tone
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Example Sentences

In both cases, negatives are made of both the halftone and fine copies.

Well, he looked like a halftone print of the Pilgrim Fathers––the kind that they hang on the walls in the district schools.

She also took a halftone snapshot of you out at the Coldtown dam, cut from a newspaper, published the Sunday after your accident.

The process of halftone-making has developed so that the reproduction can be made almost indistinguishable from the original.

This enables the engraver to make a clearer halftone, for a print with a grained surface reproduces surface and all in the cut.

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