Usually means: Graduated tones created through dots.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word halftone:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. halftone: Merriam-Webster
  2. halftone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. halftone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. halftone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. halftone: Vocabulary.com
  6. Halftone, halftone: Wordnik
  7. halftone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. halftone: Wiktionary
  9. halftone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. halftone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. halftone: Dictionary.com
  12. Halftone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. halftone: Rhymezone
  14. halftone: FreeDictionary.org
  15. halftone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. halftone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. halftone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. halftone: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. halftone: CCI Computer
  3. Halftone: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  4. halftone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See halftones as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.
noun:  (printing) A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
noun:  (art) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
verb:  To reproduce a photograph or other continuous tone image by the use of dots of various sizes.

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