halftone
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- n a print obtained from photoengraving
- n an engraving used to reproduce an illustration
- His father, Frederic Eugene Ives, 73, invented a process of colored photography and the halftone process of photoengraving.
- Concertgoers, bred in a world where the finest division of music is the halftone, in which the chromatic scale has a total of twelve tones to the octave, heard, or tried to hear .
- Even the great Caruso sometimes sang Rodolfo's Che gelida manina aria from La Bohme a halftone down from the high C that Puccini's score calls forand Puccini wrote a letter.