Usually means: Graduated dots simulate shades, tones.
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  1. Half-tone, half-tone: Wordnik
  2. half tone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. half tone: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. Half-tone, Half tone, half tone: Dictionary.com
  5. Half-tone, Half tone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. half-tone, half tone: FreeDictionary.org
  7. Half tone, half-tone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. half tone: Wiktionary

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  1. Half-tone, half tone: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Half tone)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of halftone [(music) Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.]

Similar:
halftone, quartertone, semitone, half-step, whole tone, wholetone, quarter tone, hemitone, semicrome, half step, more...

Opposite:
full tone, whole tone, unison

Types:
screen, mesh, line, dot, more...

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Similar:
halftone, quartertone, semitone, half-step, whole tone, wholetone, quarter tone, hemitone, semicrome, half step, more...

Opposite:
full tone, whole tone, unison

Types:
screen, mesh, line, dot, more...



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