half tone

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half tone - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Half tone \Half tone\, or 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.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. (Music) A half step.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     3. A print obtained by the half-tone photo-engraving process.
        [WordNet sense 1]
        [PJC]
  
     4. the etched plate used to reproduce a half-tone
        illustration. [WordNet sense 4]
  
     Syn: halftone engraving, photoengraving.
          [WordNet 1.5]