Hypertext Webster Gateway: "halftone"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Half tone \Half tone\, or Half-tone \Half"-tone`\, n.
1. (Fine Arts)
(a) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting,
engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither
very dark nor very light.
(b) A half-tone photo-engraving.
2. (Music) A half step.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Half-tone \Half"-tone`\, a.
Having, consisting of, or pertaining to, half tones; specif.
(Photo-engraving), 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
halftone
n 1: a print obtained from photoengraving
2: an engraving used to reproduce an illustration [syn: {halftone
engraving}, {photoengraving}]
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