Portuguese Meaning of half tone

Semitom

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Definitions and Meaning of half tone in English

Webster

half tone (n.)

Alt. of Half-tone

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

A half-tone photo-engraving.

A half step.

Webster

half tone (a.)

Having, consisting of, or pertaining to, half tones;

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.

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Semitom

Alt. of Half-tone, An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light., A half-tone phot

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half title => Meio frontispício, half step => semitom, half sole => meia sola, half snipe => meio-franco-atirador, half sister => meia-irmã,