halftone

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

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

Verb

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

Conceptes

tramat

fotogravat

semitò

Sinònims

half step

semitone

photoengraving

halftone engraving

half-tone

mezzotint

linecut

gray tone

half tone

midtone

half-tint

Traduccions

Halbton

demi-teinte

Rasterdruck

semitono

ημιτόνιο

demi-ton

semitono

semitonium

halftoon

halve toon

miei ton

meio-tom

semitom

sombreado

Etimologia (Anglès)

From half- + tone.