Halftone — [dt. Halbton], Halbtonbild … Universal-Lexikon
halftone — [haf′tōn΄] n. 1. Art a tone or shading between light and dark 2. Music SEMITONE 3. Photoengraving a) a technique of representing shadings by dots produced by photographing the object from behind a fine screen b) a photoengraving so made … English World dictionary
Halftone — For the music interval, see semitone. Left: Halftone dots. Right: How the human eye would see this sort of arrangement from a sufficient distance. Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous tone imagery through the use of… … Wikipedia
halftone — /haf tohn , hahf /, n. 1. Also called middle tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark. 2. Print. a. a process in which gradation of tone in an image is conveyed by first photographing… … Universalium
halftone — UK [ˌhɑːfˈtəʊn] / US [ˈhæfˌtoʊn] noun Word forms halftone : singular halftone plural halftones a) [uncountable] a way of printing black and white photographs that uses spots of different sizes b) [countable] a photograph printed using the… … English dictionary
halftone — noun Date: 1651 1. half step 2 2. a. any of the shades of gray between the darkest and the lightest parts of a photographic image b. (1) a photoengraving made from an image photographed through a screen and then etched so that the details of the… … New Collegiate Dictionary
halftone — half|tone [ hæf,toun ] noun uncount a way of printing black and white photographs that uses spots of different sizes a. count a photograph printed using the halftone method … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
halftone — /ˈhaftoʊn/ (say hahftohn) noun 1. Painting, Photography, etc. a value intermediate between high light and deep shade. 2. Photoengraving a. a process in which gradation of tone is obtained by a system of minute dots produced by a screen placed in… …
halftone — noun 1. a print obtained from photoengraving • Hypernyms: ↑engraving 2. an engraving used to reproduce an illustration • Syn: ↑halftone engraving, ↑photoengraving • Hypernyms: ↑engraving … Useful english dictionary
Halftone characteristic — In telecommunication, the term halftone characteristic has the following meanings: # In facsimile systems, the relationship between the density of the recorded copy and the density of the object, i.e. , the original. # In facsimile systems, the… … Wikipedia
