halftone

Meanings

Noun

• Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.
• A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
• 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.

Origin

• half- + tone