halftone

English

Etymology

half- +‎ tone

Noun

halftone (plural halftones)

(music) Half the interval between two notes on a scale.
(printing) A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
(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)

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

References

OED2

Anagrams

half note