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Half-tone   Listen
noun
Half-tone, Half tone  n.  
1.
(Fine Arts) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
2.
(Music) A half step.
3.
A print obtained by the half-tone photo-engraving process.
4.
The etched plate used to reproduce a half-tone illustration.
Synonyms: halftone engraving, photoengraving.





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"Half-tone" Quotes from Famous Books



... given limits of the same. These transitions, which cannot be extended without effort, coincide perfectly with the places where J. Mueller had to stretch the ligaments of his exsected voicebox so powerfully in order to reach the succeeding half-tone. Garcia likewise finds tones thus formed ...
— The Mechanism of the Human Voice • Emil Behnke
... matters, on looking at one of these pictures transferred on flushed glass, said it was one of the finest productions of photography. He urged that negatives ad rem should be taken most carefully, and that, like the picture I showed him, they should be full of half-tone and detail, and yet have plenty of vigor. They should, he said, be robust in the high lights, have perfectly clear glass in the few points of deep shadows, and thus have powerful relief. Moreover, the negatives should be retouched only by a competent hand, and care taken that the likeness ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 • Various
... to the door, I rose, and to do my hair had to wedge myself in between the breakfast-table and the filmy mirror that hung among the half-tone pictures of the rebels of 1916. On the iron mantel, gray with coal dust, there ...
— What's the Matter with Ireland? • Ruth Russell
... every month. Free Medical Advice Free Legal Aid. A Prize Photography Competition with monthly and yearly cash prizes. Stories and matters of interest for all the members of the family. 20 pages illustrated with fine half-tone and line drawings. GOLDEN HOURS is the best, as well as the cheapest, Monthly Illustrated Family Magazine. Every ...
— Wholesale Price List of Newspapers and Periodicals • D. D. Cottrell's Subscription Agency
... planes; but this richness and variety of his edges keeps his work from looking flat and dull, like that of some of his followers. I am sorry to say this variety does not come out so well in the reproduction on page 194 [Transcribers Note: Plate XLIV] as I could have wished, the half-tone process having a tendency to sharpen edges ...
— The Practice and Science Of Drawing • Harold Speed


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