Associations to the word «Halftone»

Wiktionary

HALFTONE, noun. (music) Half the interval between two notes on a scale.
HALFTONE, noun. (printing) A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
HALFTONE, noun. (arts) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
HALFTONE, verb. To reproduce a photograph or other continuous tone image by the use of dots of various sizes.

Dictionary definition

HALFTONE, noun. A print obtained from photoengraving.
HALFTONE, noun. An engraving used to reproduce an illustration.

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras