Definitions for halftone

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halftone half·tone

Spelling: [haf-tohn, hahf-]

IPA: /ˈhæfˌtoʊn, ˈhɑf-/

Halftone is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 321 anagrams from letters in halftone (aefhlnot).

Definitions for halftone

noun

1. Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
2. Printing. a process in which gradation of tone in an image is conveyed by first photographing the image through a screen to break up the continuous tones of the image into minute, closely spaced dots, then using the print obtained to produce a metal plate by photoengraving, and finally using the plate to reproduce the original image by letterpress or offset printing. the metal plate used in such a process. the print obtained in such a process. Compare line cut.

adjective

1. pertaining to, using, used in, or produced by the halftone process:

Origin of halftone

First recorded in 1645-55; half + tone

Examples for halftone

The fine checks in the pileus are clearly seen in the halftone.

Well, he looked like a halftone print of the Pilgrim Fathers––the kind that they hang on the walls in the district schools.

Credit for each photograph is given with the halftone as it appears.

She also took a halftone snapshot of you out at the Coldtown dam, cut from a newspaper, published the Sunday after your accident.

Which is how I happen to spot this folder with the halftone cut on it.

The stems run deep into the earth and are attached to a sclerotium, which will be seen in the halftone.

In both cases, negatives are made of both the halftone and fine copies.

Combination plates are made by combining the halftone and line negatives together and making one complete print on the metal.

Nine separate men handle each engraving in the halftone department.

Its use is very extensive in the making of tint blocks or color work, used either in connection with line or halftone key plates.