halftone

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.
    — That animals utter musical notes is familiar to every one, as we may daily hear in the singing of birds. It is a more remarkable fact that an ape, one of the Gibbons, produces an exact octave of musical sounds, ascending and descending the scale by half-tones; so that this monkey “alone of brute mammals may be said to sing.”
  2. A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
    — Before leaving New York a handsome booklet had been prepared and printed. The brochure contained the names of the commissioners, their public records, halftone portraits and a carefully prepared statement of the objects of the expedition.
  3. An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
    — “No, I cannot enjoy it,” Cecilia said to Mrs. Devereux; “I don't mind the grey light; cloud and water, and half-tones of colour, are homely English and pleasant, and that opal where the sun should be has a suggestiveness richer than sunlight.[…]”
动词 v.
  1. To reproduce a photograph or other continuous tone image by the use of dots of various sizes.

词形变化

halftones plural half-tone alternative halftones present,singular,third-person halftoning participle,present halftoned participle,past halftoned past half-tone alternative

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English half-
English tone
English halftone
From half- + tone.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English half-
English tone
English halftone
From half- + tone.
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