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halftone

 noun
     
Related topics: Newspapers, Publishing, Photography
half‧tone
1 [uncountable]TCN a method of printing black and white photographs that shows different shades of grey by changing the number of black dots in an area of the photograph
2 [countable]TCP a photograph printed by this method
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