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Definition of "half-tone" [half tone•half•-tone]

  • An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light. (noun)
  • A half step. (noun)
  • A print obtained by the half-tone photo-engraving process. (noun)
  • The etched plate used to reproduce a half-tone illustration. (noun)
  • Having, consisting of, or pertaining to, half tones (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "half-tone" in a sentence
  • "'The tale's brevity, Smith's concise writing and Pham's evocative full-page half-tone illustrations make this an attractive choice for reluctant readers.'"
  • "Which means taking a small, often insignificant detail, and treating enlarging those art-historical images just like a photograph—that's why you see the half-tone dots."
  • "The fretting hand sought half-tone increments lost in the dreams of reason—"