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half-tone
(encz) | half-tone,půltón n: Zdeněk Brož |
Half-tone
(gcide) | Half tone \Half tone\, or Half-tone \Half"-tone`\, n.
1. (Fine Arts) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting,
engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very
dark nor very light.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. (Music) A half step.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. A print obtained by the half-tone photo-engraving process.
[WordNet sense 1]
[PJC]
4. the etched plate used to reproduce a half-tone
illustration. [WordNet sense 4]
Syn: halftone engraving, photoengraving.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Half-tone
(gcide) | Half-tone \Half"-tone`\ (h[aum]f"t[=o]n`), 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
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Half-tone
(gcide) | Half tone \Half tone\, or Half-tone \Half"-tone`\, n.
1. (Fine Arts) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting,
engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very
dark nor very light.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. (Music) A half step.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. A print obtained by the half-tone photo-engraving process.
[WordNet sense 1]
[PJC]
4. the etched plate used to reproduce a half-tone
illustration. [WordNet sense 4]
Syn: halftone engraving, photoengraving.
[WordNet 1.5]Half-tone \Half"-tone`\ (h[aum]f"t[=o]n`), 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
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