- (n.) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) Having, consisting of or pertaining to, half tones;.
- (n.) A half step.
- (n.) A half-tone photo-engraving.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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