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noun

Half-tone, Half tone n.

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

(Music) A half step.

A print obtained by the half-tone photo-engraving process.

The etched plate used to reproduce a half-tone illustration.

Synonyms: halftone engraving, photoengraving.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to this so much that Maitland objected. It was the illustrations that alternately saddened and maddened the young man: the said illustrations comprising blurred half-tone reproductions of photographs taken on the Maitland estate; a diagram of the library, as fanciful as the text it illuminated, and two portraits, side by side, of the heroes, himself and Anisty, excellent likenesses both of the originals and of ...

— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance