halftone : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: halftone	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for halftone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
halftone n a print obtained from photoengraving an engraving used to reproduce an illustration Synonym(s): halftone, halftone engraving, photoengraving
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Half tone \Half tone\, [or] Half-tone \Half"-tone`\, n. 1. (Fine Arts) (a) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light. (b) A half-tone photo-engraving. 2. (Music) A half step.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Half-tone \Half"-tone`\, a. Having, consisting of, or pertaining to, half tones; specif. (Photo-engraving), pertaining to or designating plates, processes, or the pictures made by them, in which gradation of tone in the photograph is reproduced by a graduated system of dotted and checkered spots, usually nearly invisible to the unaided eye, produced by the interposition between the camera and the object of a screen. The name alludes to the fact that this process was the first that was practically successful in reproducing the half tones of the photograph.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
halftone The reproducion of {greyscale} {images} using dots of a single shade but varying size to simulate the different shades of grey. {Laser printers} that cannot print different sized dots, halftones are produced by varying the numbers of dots in a given area. This process is also used to produce a black and white version of a colour original using shades of grey in place of colours. See also {device independent bitmap}. (1996-09-20)