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)

• "'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—"