halftone

English

Etymology

half- +‎ tone

Noun

halftone (plural halftones)

1. (music) Half the interval between two notes on a scale.
2. (printing) A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
3. (art) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.

Synonyms

• semitone

Translations

half the interval between two notes

• Finnish: puolisävelaskel (fi)
• German: Halbton (de) m

• Portuguese: meio-tom m
• Russian: полуто́н (ru) m (polutón)

picture made by half-toning

• Czech: půltón m
• Finnish: rasterikuva, rasterivedos

• German: Rasterdruck m
• Portuguese: meio-tom m

Verb

halftone (third-person singular simple present halftones, present participle halftoning, simple past and past participle halftoned)

1. To reproduce a photograph or other continuous tone image by the use of dots of various sizes.

References

• OED2

Anagrams

• half note