Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Half-tone

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Half-tone

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Half-pike
Half-port
Half-ray
Half-read
Half-sighted
Half-sister
Half-strained
Half-sword
Half-timbered
Half-tone
Half-tounue
Half-wit
Half-witted
Half-yearly
Halfbeak
Halfcock
Halfcocked
Halfcocking
Halfen

(1):

(n.) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.

(2):

(n.) A half-tone photo-engraving.

(3):

(a.) Having, consisting of, or pertaining to, half tones;

(4):

(n.) A half step.

(5):

(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.