The Collaborative International Dictionary
Half tone \Half tone\, or Half-tone \Half"-tone`\, n.
(Fine Arts) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
(Music) A half step.
A print obtained by the half-tone photo-engraving process.
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the etched plate used to reproduce a half-tone illustration. [WordNet sense 4]
Syn: halftone engraving, photoengraving.
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.
Usage examples of "half-tone".
The flowers of the chestnut tree flare up: by their white light she can see his face, the skin greyish, half-toned.
The bank we were following offered a prospect even more gloomy-- a dense, dark mass, amid which, sometimes, mysterious half-tones told of a dock gate, or sudden high lights leapt flaring to the eye.
The databank's visual representation was as unprepossessingly functional as the unit it represented-a cube whose half-toned walls were covered with buttons and windows which activated and displayed the various services.
The databank's visual representation was as unprepossessingly functional as the unit it representedâa cube whose half-toned walls were covered with buttons and windows which activated and displayed the various services.
The databank's visual representation was as unprepossessingly functional as the unit it represented—a cube whose half-toned walls were covered with buttons and windows which activated and displayed the various services.